Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers

Re:Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Develop... by humbledrone on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @04:12AM (#2070442)

Finally! IMHO Google's Android Market is the weakest part of the platform right now. I am fond of my Android phone but it really is a pain to find new apps. AFAICT, the only way to really do it is from the handset, which is not nearly as useful as being able to do it from my desktop machine. Hopefully the existence of Amazon's marketplace will motivate Google to get their act together. If not, maybe I'll just switch to the Amazon market.

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Re:Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Develop... by izendejas on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @05:03AM (#2070543)

Android has several issues and I agree that the market app sucks, so I use appbrain. Give a try if you haven't already. It gives decent recommendations and you can filter apps by hotness among other things.

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Re:Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Develop... by Xuzz on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:22PM (#2071823)

I think the issue, though, is not if you (or other people on HN) use AppBrain: it's if your customers are going to be able to find your app. I doubt that a significant chunk of Android users actually use something like AppBrain, so a pre-installed Amazon Appstore might help those people.

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Re:Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Develop... by izendejas on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @02:15PM (#2072056)

I never implied otherwise (I agree), just spreading the word about appbrain.

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