Amazon Planning To Launch Its Own Android Appstore

Amazon is planning to launch its own mobile app store to compete with Google's Android Marketplace. Amazon has already opened up its Amazon AppStore Developer Portal in January, which gives a good indication of things to come.


Amazon is planning to launch its own mobile app store to compete with Google’s Android Marketplace. Amazon opened its Amazon AppStore Developer Portal in January, which gave a good indication of things to come.

Amazon will be initially rolling out Android based apps and will subsequently add apps for other mobile platforms. Any Waring, Amazon spokeswoman announced the upcoming release:

We’re starting with Android apps since it’s an open ecosystem. Amazon officially hasn’t made an announcement as to when our app store will launch, but all I can say right now is soon — it’s coming soon.

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