{"id":11516,"date":"2010-09-28T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2010\/09\/28\/amazon-to-launch-android-app-store-android-tablet-too\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T15:26:00","slug":"amazon-to-launch-android-app-store-android-tablet-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11516","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to Launch Android App Store.  Android Tablet, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/amazon_android_marketplace.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1856]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"An Amazon-powered Android Marketplace?\" border=\"0\" alt=\"An Amazon-powered Android Marketplace?\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/amazon_android_marketplace_thumb.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">TechCrunch has posted a couple of interesting news items in the last few hours.&#160; None of the information has been confirmed, but if true they indicate an interesting new direction for Amazon vis-\u00e0-vis the Android OS.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/09\/27\/amazon-android-app-store\/\">first story<\/a> states that Amazon is planning to launch its own Android app store.&#160; Apps in the store would be viewable on Amazon.com and the retailer would split the take with the developer.&#160; Exactly how such a third-party store would work is unclear, but Amazon would have a great deal of control over what appears in the store and what devices its apps can be installed to.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/09\/27\/amazon-android-tablet\/\">second story<\/a> suggests that the debut of Amazon\u2019s Android app store may be accompanied by an Android-powered Amazon tablet.&#160; Whether the Amazon Android software store would be exclusively available on this device or whether it would be a built-in feature on the tablet and an option for other Android smartphone users is unknown. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\"><em>Techmeme<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch has posted a couple of interesting news items in the last few hours.&#160; None of the information has been confirmed, but if true they indicate an interesting new direction for Amazon vis-\u00e0-vis the Android OS. The first story states that Amazon is planning to launch its own Android app store.&#160; Apps in the store [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}