Here is an interesting article, though I wonder how different things will appear by using this cloud app, compared to the downloaded app? --->
Greg Lamm on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 7:02am PDT
Amazon unveils Kindle cloud app in response to Apple restrictions
Amazon.com has a new web application that allows Kindle readers to access their books from the cloud or download them for future reading.
The app works with PCs and tablets, including the iPad. The Kindle Cloud Reader comes shortly after Apple put restrictions on apps sold through the Apple App Store.
The Cloud Reader HTML5 app allows Kindle customers to read Kindle books with their web browser - online or offline - with no downloading or installation required.
Included in the new Kindle app is an embedded Kindle Store button for the web browser to allow users to purchase new books.
Earlier this year, Apple put restrictions on apps sold in its App Store, requiring Amazon and others to strip their apps of links back to their app stores. The rule is designed to ensure that Apple gets its 30 percent cut of the sale prompted by the app.
Read more here: http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/08/amazon-unveils-kindle-cloud-app.html?ana=e_pft
This IS an interesting story.
ReplyDeleteI knew that Apple wanted their 30% so they refuse apps that allow people to buy out of the apple system. I didn't know that they wanted a 30% cut of every book that people buy through the Amazon app. I'm OK with this idea of Amazon making a workaround.
ReplyDeleteInteresting,... I knew the apple situation with the apple apps was restrictive,... the contract they want developers to sign for using their so called free to the public SDK (software development kit) very effectively gives them ownership over anything you as a private developer create.
ReplyDeleteThe Android SDK is quite the opposite. What you build, is yours to do with as you please (within the limits of federal laws).
As for the technical capabilities of the two systems, so far I've found that Android as a platform can produce applications and services of an equal or better level than apple, but at the same time, the key disadvantage the Android community is under is the same one private developers everywhere suffer.
The infrastructure for enforcing standards and quality controls is pretty loose. So the "can", isn't the "does" it should be. However, as time progresses and the Android community grows, you will see the quality and the number of applications very quickly outstrip apple.
In other words, welcome back to apple's old Achilles heel,... proprietary product development in a market where a lower cost more easily accessed option is available.
That's a very interesting story Cam!!
The best of a great weekend to you and yours!!!
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Glad you like it, John. How are your programming skills coming along? In the next month or two I will be getting myself an Android Smartphone and retiring my semi-smart phone.
ReplyDeleteI've barely started. Got the Eclipse emulator working and made it through a few of the "Here's how you do this" lessons. Not quite up to the level where I can build entire fully integrated systems from stem to stern yet. But working on it when there's an opportunity.
ReplyDeleteHere's an excellent starting point!!! http://www.eclipse.org/
The best of luck with your programming efforts Cam!!!! (Grin)
I suspect you'll be able to take your smart phone from smart to genius in no time flat!!!
If you know Java already, you're a leg up on the game. (Otherwise you'll be in the same boat as folks like me who are learning both android and java at the same time)
Hope this helps!!!
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Me? Program? Hahahaha.... I have absolutely no interest in learning how to make programs. I'm hoping that I can USE YOUR programs, even if you are designing them so that the space cowboys of the future will have full control from something as small as an android phone.
ReplyDelete(Laughing!!!) I'll see what I can do, but it's likely to take a while!!
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