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Amazon Stops Hiding Competitors’ E-Reading Apps On The Kindle Fire | TechCrunch
@Leslie Tita
Your article was really pleasant to read, you make valid arguments and great counter arguments, MG Siegler should learn a tip or two from you.
@Tou Karl
Amazon, welcome to Apple world. How does it feel now that you are sporting a similar show?
@Kristjan Kanarik
Amazon, just make better apps and make more/better/cheaper books available and people will not go to those other apps. Simple as that.
@Ken Schoenberg
I believe Amazon is going through a process on each app to make sure it is compatible with the Kindle. Similar to Apple's App store. That the process might have taken less than a month for some apps isn't inconceivable.How many months was it before Apple released Opera for the iPad? As for the re-directing of the Android Market. They should have said what they were doing and explained through a pop-up the problem. While I understand that I can't use the Android Market there are still reasons to go there such as sending apps to other Android devices. Unlike Apple allows apps to be installed from many other sources without any form of hacking/jailbreaking necessary. There are also other app stores that can be installed on the Kindle Fire like GetJar. It's also nice that Amazon allowed Adobe Flash to run thus supporting hundreds of thousands of websites that Apple chose to basically block. I'd say Amazon has done a very good job in the support area, including the release of the patch this week which fixed and improved performance dramatically. Apple made me wait seven months to get a fix for the horrid WiFi issue on the iPad. I guess it's time for the torch and pitchfork crew to find some other small issue to highlight.
@Robin Wauters
No, the apps were already approved by Amazon, and worked on Android tablets (including the Kindle Fire) just fine. The problem was that they weren't listed on the Fire. Again, for whatever reason (I asked Amazon but haven't heard back yet).
@John Gelroth
I guess we should all thank Wattpad for talking to Amazon and reminding them that competition is good, and that Google's Android platform was built to address that issue of Apple's closed market.
@Sean McGee
Still cant find Kobo app on Kindle Fire... Wattpad works, but Kobo doesn't.
@Robin Wauters
Thanks, see update.
@Reto Perdida de Peso
Still no app.
@Kevin Zweier
Sideloading Kobo app does not work either. The Kindle Fire allows you to install it, but not open or use the app.
@Ade Molajo
Yeah because Amazon made the fire so that it could be an open and competive eco-system. Sarcasm aside, third party readers e.g. alkido etc are a black cloud on the publishing industry. There are a lot of premium, newly released books swimming around on piratebay... I'm not a SOPA supporter but its not good for the stakeholders.