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But an Amazon Android store by itself isn't enough. The retailer needs a device, too -- again, in the short term, it has little do with iPad and other iOS devices. Amazon commanded 48 percent e-reader market share during fourth-quarter 2010, as measured in shipments, according to IDC. Barnes & Noble ranked second. Amazon's biggest rival does offer an Android device -- NOOKcolor. Amazon's first motivation is, again, about extending its e-reader reach into other digital content areas. That's good retailing. But Amazon also needs to worry about immediate competition in the e-reader market from competitors like Barnes & Nobile and the opportunities Android devices, including hot tablets like Motorola XOOM, Wholesale Cell Phones will present.
Rumors started percolating late last week about Amazon launching its Android app store as early as March 22nd. Perhaps it's no coincidence that CTIA Wireless officially opens the same day. wholesale electronics suppliers
Long term, Amazon is targeting Apple, too, but as retail competitor. Apple's business is about selling software and hardware. Applications are a means of making its products more valuable to potential customers and for extending the broader mobile OS platform. Amazon is a retailer looking to sell anything and everything. But the businesses collide around selling digital content. Amazon and Apple want a chunk of the same market. Wholesale Cell Phones
Will Amazon launch an Android Kindle reader this week? I have no intelligence on that. But launching an app store concurrently or even in preparation for Android Kindle makes sense -- and during CTIA Wireless.
But an Amazon Android store by itself isn't enough. The retailer needs a device, too -- again, in the short term, it has little do with iPad and other iOS devices. Amazon commanded 48 percent e-reader market share during fourth-quarter 2010, as measured in shipments, according to IDC. Barnes & Noble ranked second. Amazon's biggest rival does offer an Android device -- NOOKcolor. Amazon's first motivation is, again, about extending its e-reader reach into other digital content areas. That's good retailing. But Amazon also needs to worry about immediate competition in the e-reader market from competitors like Barnes & Nobile and the opportunities Android devices, including hot tablets like Motorola XOOM, will present.
Rumors started percolating late last week about Amazon launching its Android app store as early as March 22nd. Perhaps it's no coincidence that CTIA Wireless officially opens the same day. wholesale electronics suppliers
Long term, Amazon is targeting Apple, too, but as retail competitor. Apple's business is about selling software and hardware. Applications are a means of making its products more valuable to potential customers and for extending the broader mobile OS platform. Amazon is a retailer looking to sell anything and everything. But the businesses collide around selling digital content. Amazon and Apple want a chunk of the same market. Wholesale Cell Phones
Will Amazon launch an Android Kindle reader this week? I have no intelligence on that. But launching an app store concurrently or even in preparation for Android Kindle makes sense -- and during CTIA Wireless.
