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Originally Posted by din155
If it’s about speculations then maybe Amazon wants to avoid a lockdown situation with apple or any other company. What if tomorrow apple decides to ban kindle app? Or google decides to start policing the android market and wants to squeeze more juice than they are already getting with their adds?  |
I can possibly see Apple banning the Kindle app, but I don't know how much that would hurt Amazon. Jailbreaking an iOS device is fairly trivial (although I think it's harder than rooting Android, from what I understand). A jailbroken iOS device will use Amazon products just as well as they'll use anything in the App Store.
As for Google, I think they'd be insane to try to change things too much. Android is open. It's distributed under a combination of the GPL and
Apache licenses. If Google tries to squeeze the manufacturers too much, then it's sayonara for Google. The companies who want to will just put out their own Android variants, and users will sideload whatever apps they want.
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Originally Posted by din155
Wouldn’t it make much more sense for Amazon to have their own device that they can integrate it with their ecosystem and remove the dependency on anyone else? And its not that they are going to pull back the apps from other devices but their own device will be better integrated with Amazon ecosystem.
Just speculations.. |
I see what you're saying, but it doesn't seem to be Amazon's business style. They've obviously had the money to do it before now. Why isn't there
already an Amazon tablet? For that matter, why haven't we seen an Amazon media player? A Kindle is basically an iPod for books, so if they were going to go the same route with music and movies, why haven't we seen a Kindle for music and movies? If they were going to do it, I would've thought they would do it by now. Everything I'm seeing seems to point in the opposite direction: "You provide the hardware. We'll take care of the software you buy for it."