We have recently seen the launch of Amazon.com Inc.’s Appstore for Android. It was not the first 3rd party app store and it is unlikely to be the last.  GetJar has been around for a little while and there are now rumours of Barnes & Noble Inc. starting its own repository of Android apps. All [...]

Mark my words, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of a bunch of Israeli developers, but that’s just what Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, recently did with his rude and curt “no interest” rejection email to Israeli firm, Tawkon.

It’s been many months in the making, but today Amazon have finally taken the wraps off their Appstore for Android sporting a modest 3,800 Apps, including an exclusive version of Angry Birds that will no doubt help drive uptake of the new platform.

AUSTIN, Texas – Our staff was able to view and shoot a demonstration of “Angry Birds Rio,” a take-off of the hit original game “Angry Birds,” at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival today. According to game developer Rovio, the app will debut exclusively on Amazon.com’s curated Android Appstore on March 22. “More of the [...]

Amazon.com’s curated Android Appstore has been some time in the making – it opened to developers a few months ago, and we’re assured it will be seeing a public launch “very soon.” In the meantime, Amazon.com has obviously been wining and dining the app royalty of this world, and as a result has scored a pretty hefty coup.

Google Inc. has had something of an uphill battle on its hands with the Android Market. Although it is now comparable to Apple Inc.’s gargantuan App Store in terms of raw number of apps, it has been plagued with issues that wouldn’t crop up in Apple’s heavily-regulated outlet.

The openness of Android is what many people love so much about the mobile OS – you can run your own code on it, customise it however you see fit, and generally tinker about much more so than you can with it’s competitors. The Android Market is open too – anybody can put an App on there and wait to start raking in the cash.

The app store battle that used to rage between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. appears to have finally cooled down, with both parties seemingly happy that they have a huge enough catalogue of apps to satisfy even the most voracious smart phone user. However, some of the app distribution platforms on other systems leave a lot to be desired.

Today at the Guggenheim Museum in a snowy, cold New York, the re-animated corpse of Rupert Murdoch and Apple’s Eddy Cue launched their iPad-only newspaper, The Daily.

There have long been statistics floating around about the differences between the iOS App Store and Android Market. Android may have the geek-cred of being open source and uncensored, but the App Store is undoubtedly the way to go if you want to make some money.