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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Amazon launched the appstore first, got it established, and then launched the hardware. When Fire came out it already had far more available apps than the Nook appstore ever mustered and a lot of Android phone owners were already vested in the Amazon appstore.
Amazon acted like a content vendor, B&N as a hardware vendor.
(And not a terribly competent one.)
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Amazon also promoted their appstore heavily with the free app of the day so it had a huge following and a large number of apps before they had the hardware.