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stonetools · 09-04-2011, 09:33 AM

I think that what a lot of people miss is that Amazon and Google are competitors. . An app sold in the Amazon AppStore represents a lost sale in the Google Market. Conversely a book sold in Google Books means one less sold to Amazon. Since that's the economic reality, it makes perfect sense that Google Market will be absent from the Amazon tablet and that Google would make it hard to get to the Amazon AppStore from Google devices. I think that Android may end up like desktop Linux - various versions with mutually incompatible apps.

09-04-2011, 09:33 AM	#107
stonetools Wizard Posts: 2,016 Karma: 2838487 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Device: Ipad, IPhone	I think that what a lot of people miss is that Amazon and Google are competitors. . An app sold in the Amazon AppStore represents a lost sale in the Google Market. Conversely a book sold in Google Books means one less sold to Amazon. Since that's the economic reality, it makes perfect sense that Google Market will be absent from the Amazon tablet and that Google would make it hard to get to the Amazon AppStore from Google devices. I think that Android may end up like desktop Linux - various versions with mutually incompatible apps. Last edited by stonetools; 09-04-2011 at 09:40 AM.