UPDATE: Amazon’s plans are massive!
UPDATE: According to Engadget, (link here) the Wall Street Journal just confirmed Amazons plans for their own Android App Store. The date of release is still unannounced but based on the information we provided you last week, this news gives much more assurance that this launch is definitely going to happen. The tablets haven't been brought back up just yet, we are still waiting for more information on those as well. According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon also states that no app will be sold for less, anywhere. This is another statement we would like to see proven right! Our ears are open for release dates and we will let you know.
Everyone knows Amazon.com sells lots and lots of stuff. Besides its tremendous product range, Amazon makes every possible attempt to customize the buyer experience. According to TechCrunch, Amazon has been busy increasing their product range yet again, targeting cellular and pc users. What began as rumors, have now been proven true by tipsters and leaked all over the web.
Weeks ago, Amazon started reaching out to developers about an opportunity and making interested developers sign a NDA before proceeding further. Following, one developer began discussing Amazon's proposal and another talked about the plans for the payment system. Now speculators are sure that Amazon is going to release their own Amazon app store, and it looks like it may be a competitor to Android’s official Android Market. (link here)
Amazon isn't stopping there. They are moving beyond just an app store and working to release their own Amazon Android Tablet, according to the same tipster who was right about the Amazon app store. We can only assume that this tablet will run Android, allowing access the Amazon app store to work. We are following these stories and will keep you updated when the official releases are available. We haven't heard yet when that date will be and never know what changes could take place from now until then. (link here)
Source: Techcrunch.com
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lol everyones Tablet crazy now.. Android Tablets have been around for atleast a year though not popular.. iPad a few months ago.. Galaxy S tablet coming soon.. BlackBerry just announced their BB Tablet yesterday.. and now an Amazon Android Tablet….
This is possibly why “free licensing of Android OS” is not neccessairly a good thing.. Anyone can put Android on anything for free and sell it using Android as the selling point.. the Market will soon be flooded with all these Tablets, but hey atleast theyre keeping the Tablet Market competitve I suppose
I was thinking the same thing bored.
Maybe I should have let you write this story 
Great points I just didn’t want to go into detail. I knew you would for me 
I love gadgets myself, but I just don’t see a good use for a tablet in my lifestyle. The only time I’d use it is while I’m sitting at my TV and maybe once every year I travel. While the screen is not as big on my EVO as a tablet, it substitutes very well and more portable. Just can’t justify spending hundreds of dollars on a tablet.
I see this the opposite way. I see the open licensing as a good thing. Sure, anyone can slap android on their own device, and sell the thing with android as a selling point, but is that REALLY a bad thing???
Amazon plans on releasing a separate market for android that will compete with the official market. Lets face it, the official market is VERY primitive in terms of search, ratings, and just about any other field you care to look at. Its just a platform to place your apps, you can place 2 screen shots, a description, contact info, and a link to your other apps. There’s no “users who bought this item also bought….” style of suggestion. While that may look like suggestive advertising (and it is), it also does help the consumer by showing them apps and products that they didn’t know existed.
As it stands right now the average smartphone user has an average of 10 or less downloaded apps. I had trouble believing this number, until I asked my sister which apps she had downloaded for her iPhone. She had only downloaded 4 apps, and she’s had the phone for a year. So then I realized they included iPhone as a smartphone. iPhone users for the most part aren’t tech savy. They aren’t PPCGeeks by far. They just want a simple platform that they can do neat things on, neat things being tasks that would bore the majority of this sites users. The problem was that iPhone used to be the only phone that could appeal to them. It was the only simple phone that was also a powerful and cool phone. Android changed that.
With androids market share on the rise among casual users, people are flocking away from at&t in droves. These are the same types of people who LOVE amazon. This new amazon app market will only have two major hurdles.
The first is getting the word out that android isn’t as closed walled as the iPhone was for them. Letting these new users know that there are now several markets, and they have a choice is going to be confusing to some of them.
The second hurdle they will face is teaching these new users not only how to allow 3rd party apps which were not installed by the official market, but also to ignore that warning about being careful in doing so. These users see a warning that allowing 3rd party software to run could compromise their phone, and suddenly they steer away from doing so and question themselves in leaving the closed gated iPhone platform.
For those of us who know what we’re doing however, this new amazon market is nothing but good. Its competition. Suddenly the official market will have to step up its game to compete with the juggernaut that is amazon. Plus amazon isn’t new to this sort of thing. They could probably whip up a fully working market that pushes the limits of what we know as an app market that we know in a matter of hours.
This also gives developers not really a choice of where to host their apps, but rather another place to host their apps. I doubt either the official market, nor amazon will make anyone sign exclusivity waivers that lock down where these apps can be hosted and sold from. So the developers will gain another outlet, and in the form of amazon, no less.
All that being said, I just fail to see where “too much choice” or “flooding the market” is a bad thing. All I see it doing is exposing the flaws of the current search system in the official app market, which I assume will have to be upgraded now because of this. Its win/win/win/win/win/win/win/win………ok, I don’t know how many win’s it is, but it’s a LOT!
Good look for Amazon
@ace741 – I feel the same way ace, I mean whats the point of carrying around one of these things, my laptop is just slightly larger than an ipad so what the point? My evo is a perfect substitute if I don’t feel like walking with my laptop. Anyway, I guess people get them because of the cool factor and not the practical factor because they are not very practical in most cases IMO.
Competition almost always brings bigger better newer cheaper options for the end consumer. Will be interesting to see what happens.
I honestly can’t wait. I love Amazon. They want to do right by their customers and are always beyond helpful. I buy thousands of $’s off amazon per year. I buy TV’s, books, PC parts and even food off Amazon. I hope they do a great job with their android market. I think they will be more along the line of the apple app store with Amazon only posting “approved” apps if they want to compete for the typical non knowledgeable users.