March 22, 2011

Amazon Opens Android App Store

Amazon.com has entered the mobile app business with an Android app store.

The Amazon Appstore, which will be accessible at Amazon.com/appstore and through a mobile app, will sell applications for Android phones and tablets. It will also encroach on Google’s territory by providing Android users with a new way to buy apps that cuts Google out of the equation.

The store’s name has already prompted a lawsuit from Apple.

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