Amazon's App Store For Android Will Be Tablet-Focused and Use Their Recommendations Tech

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Here in Apps Lifestyle we apreciate Amazons move. Android doesn't have a decent app store, and Amazon could make it. Amazon will focus on the tablets, the competitors of iPad. I think this is also a good move. It's may be to late to do something for Amazon on the crowded unhealthy Android mobile market. And they even will do quality check on the apps!

A post from Gizmodo by Kat Hannaford has the whole story. Here is a part:

Amazon's App Store For Android Will Be Tablet-Focused and Use Their Recommendations Tech


















Do you remember when we heard that Amazon was creating its own app store for the Android platform? Further details have been shared about the store, which will compete with Google's own app store in the US this year.
A new online hub for developers has launched for submitting apps, giving away some key details, butTechCrunch also spoke to two sources from within Amazon about the app store, who clarified that the main difference between that and Android's own app store will be the way apps are vetted.
Specifically, Google doesn't vet apps until users report problems with them, whereas Amazon is going to take a leaf from Apple's book and spend about a week analyzing each app before giving it the thumb's up.
This should help weed out buggy, junky apps, but for anyone concerned about Amazon taking on Apple's puritanical morals—don't worry. Supposedly they're only concerned with porny and illegal apps, but everything else should be a-ok.
Prices could also be better, too. Amazon has complete control over setting the price of each app, with developers getting the standard 70 per cent slice from each purchase. Users will be able to pay with their Amazon accounts, so it's literally one click until the app is theirs.

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