Today Amazon locked up the Android ecosystem

[boswd]

Originally Posted by kennyc

They are probably being totally slammed at the moment.

that's what I was thinking, right now it's downloading each song at 30 seconds per song. but that's ok just minimize and check back when done.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by boswd

does this sound normal? I mean Media Monkey scanned my entire library in a flash.

Monkeys are fast. What you need is Monkey Cloud.

[SlowRain]

From the zdnet article:

It insures that every Android device owner does business with Amazon of one type or another: apps, music, ebooks or all three.

Not me. Not even my cloud storage.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Monkeys are fast. What you need is Monkey Cloud.

Yeah, but what I want is Money Cloud.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Yeah, but what I want is Money Cloud.

You already have Money Cloud. PM me your debit card number/ PIN and I'll demonstrate how it works on Amazon.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

You already have Money Cloud. PM me your debit card number/ PIN and I'll demonstrate how it works on Amazon.

Uhhhh, no.

[Solicitous]

Originally Posted by bhartman36

I doubt it's actually going to matter, in practical terms. For now, Amazon has a lot fewer apps than the regular Android Marketplace, but it's not like (AFAIK) Amazon isn't letting the Android Marketplace carry Amazon apps. I guess the cloud storage (specifically, the price) is kind of a big deal, but other than that, no.

What would be interesting is if Amazon released the cloud storage and cloud player apps on iOS. That might be a threat to iTunes (which is why I couldn't see Apple allowing the apps on the App Store).

In practical terms I think it will be great if they run it like their ebook store. Currently all your purchased ebooks are in your account and kept on Amazon servers. Buy a new Kindle and download all your purchased content. Hopefully the same will happen with the Android store, buy apps and they keep a copy for you.

Think iTunes, you buy an app or song....best keep a copy because if you delete it by mistake best pull out the credit card and buy it again. I recently did a factory reset on my android phone, and all the apps I had previously downloaded (all free) were gone from my phone which is fine, but when I logged into the Android market it listed the apps I had previously downloaded as "recommended" and the next time I logged in to the android market the list was gone. Buggered if I know all the apps I had on there.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Uhhhh, no.

No??? ...but I want more toys

[boswd]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Monkeys are fast. What you need is Monkey Cloud.

Hmmm maybe Media Monkey can loan out their monkey to Amazon to help them quickly get off the ground. They can pay him in cigaretts and beer.

[kjk]

Originally Posted by Solicitous

Think iTunes, you buy an app or song....best keep a copy because if you delete it by mistake best pull out the credit card and buy it again. I recently did a factory reset on my android phone, and all the apps I had previously downloaded (all free) were gone from my phone which is fine, but when I logged into the Android market it listed the apps I had previously downloaded as "recommended" and the next time I logged in to the android market the list was gone. Buggered if I know all the apps I had on there.

Not true for apps or books, actually, at least for iOS.

[HarryT]

I don't understand the title of this thread. In what way have Amazon "locked up" anything?

[wodin]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Right, but again require connectivity or use or at least to sync up.

Still I think we are rapidly approaching the day when all our devices will be on line and communicating continuously and certainly at that point cloud or virtual cloud or personal cloud makes tons of sense.

Mine are! Well; except for my wife's car, and my livingroom TV set (it's an old one that doesn't have HDMI).

And yes, a personal colud does make sense.

[=X=]

Originally Posted by Solicitous

.... I recently did a factory reset on my android phone, and all the apps I had previously downloaded (all free) were gone from my phone which is fine, but when I logged into the Android market it listed the apps I had previously downloaded as "recommended" and the next time I logged in to the android market the list was gone. Buggered if I know all the apps I had on there.

If you go to the web site market.android.com you can see a list of all the apps you have at one point installed. Won't tell you what you had installed however.

The one thing the android app market does tell you is what apps you have purchased so that you may re-install them.

=X=

[boswd]

well after close to 2.5 hours of downloading, I must say using it on my phone this moring was pretty sweet. Very easy to navigate etc. sounded great. still will keep using my Sansa until cell phone company's and battery manufactures can get on the same page.

But so far so good.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by boswd

well after close to 2.5 hours of downloading, I must say using it on my phone this moring was pretty sweet. Very easy to navigate etc. sounded great. still will keep using my Sansa until cell phone company's and battery manufactures can get on the same page.

But so far so good.

I have a dumb phone and two things keep me from using its MP3 function: 1) don't want to drain the battery and not have it available for phone calls, 2) it has a 2.5mm headphone jack.

My Sansa is here for the long haul.