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What a fantastic way to encourage adoption of a new mobile phone - encourage developers to annoy users with full-screen ads as much as possible. Excuse me whil
by peterkelly 12y ago
What a fantastic way to encourage adoption of a new mobile phone - encourage developers to annoy users with full-screen ads as much as possible.
Excuse me while I rush out and buy my fire phone right now so I can get my fill of this wonderful form of advertising.
Pro tip, in case Amazon is reading this: Do this some time after you've launched and have lots of users actively using apps.
- adrr 12y agoProblem Amazon is trying to solve is the lack of fire specific apps.
- peterkelly 12y agoHmm, if only there was an app store with > 1 million apps already on it they could have included support for...
- Someone1234 12y agoIt isn't that simple. Google's app store comes with a whole lot of tie-ins (e.g. Google Search as the default search engine, Google apps as the default apps for many things, etc). Google's ecosystem is competing directly with Amazon's ecosystem in some areas, in order to have the Play Store, Amazon would have to cut off their leg to save their arm.