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Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details

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Re: Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details

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Post by izendejas »

humbledrone wrote: post #3

Finally! IMHO Google's Android Market is the weakest part of the platform right now. I am fond of my Android phone but it really is a pain to find new apps. AFAICT, the only way to really do it is from the handset, which is not nearly as useful as being able to do it from my desktop machine. Hopefully the existence of Amazon's marketplace will motivate Google to get their act together. If not, maybe I'll just switch…

Android has several issues and I agree that the market app sucks, so I use appbrain. Give a try if you haven't already. It gives decent recommendations and you can filter apps by hotness among other things.

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Post by Jabbles »

ericflo wrote: post #7
latch wrote: post #6

Wow..Amazon gets to set the price on your app. Developers only get to recommend. Certainly original. If this takes off it could have a significant impact on application pricing for more than just Android devices. iTunes put it in people's heads that a song is worth $1. Amazon is working hard at saying that a book is worth $10. This is the same model - by setting the price for individual apps, Amazon is going to be se…

The nice thing is that Amazon can basically continuously and automatically A/B test different price points for each app. Drop the price by a penny, is revenue better than projected over an hour? Ok, drop it by another penny, etc.

Ten years ago Amazon was burned by price testing. This seems an appropriate time to try again.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/51392/Amazon_apologiz...

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Post by dalore »

latch wrote: post #10
latch wrote: post #6

Wow..Amazon gets to set the price on your app. Developers only get to recommend. Certainly original. If this takes off it could have a significant impact on application pricing for more than just Android devices. iTunes put it in people's heads that a song is worth $1. Amazon is working hard at saying that a book is worth $10. This is the same model - by setting the price for individual apps, Amazon is going to be se…

It'd be nice if, when developers give their 10 days notice (which is what is required to remove the app from the store), Amazon locks the price. I could see some pretty angry developers pulling their app, and having amazon's "automated" pricing engine heavily reduce the app's price at the same time.

It says you are guaranteed 20% of the list price, even if Amazon give it away for free.

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Post by dalore »

iwwr wrote: post #2

Would the various "markets" inter-operate? Does the device sold with operator firmware have access to the Amazon Android Market?

I would assume that Amazon would release an app in the default Google Android appstore which would then let the user access the Amazon Android appstore.

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Post by InclinedPlane »

latch wrote: post #6

Wow..Amazon gets to set the price on your app. Developers only get to recommend. Certainly original. If this takes off it could have a significant impact on application pricing for more than just Android devices. iTunes put it in people's heads that a song is worth $1. Amazon is working hard at saying that a book is worth $10. This is the same model - by setting the price for individual apps, Amazon is going to be se…

Careful making overly sweeping conclusions though.

What works to grow and establish a market may not be best later. Right now app stores and e-books are still up and coming, it's more important to get them accepted and popular than to maximize efficiency or revenue. Once they are more mature, things may change.

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Post by jrockway »

iwwr wrote: post #2

Would the various "markets" inter-operate? Does the device sold with operator firmware have access to the Amazon Android Market?

Yes. As with any real computing device, you can install software from anywhere. In Android, you have to check a checkbox first, but that's all.

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Post by wccrawford »

Jabbles wrote: post #13
ericflo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The nice thing is that Amazon can basically continuously and automatically A/B test different price points for each app. Drop the price by a penny, is revenue better than projected over an hour? Ok, drop it by another penny, etc.

Ten years ago Amazon was burned by price testing. This seems an appropriate time to try again. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/51392/Amazon_apologiz...

Burned? It doesn't appear to have actually hurt them, and they ended up with better policies because of it. Doesn't sound like a burn to me.

And that article even states that they will continue to have price a/b testing, just a more fair sort. They aren't 'trying again', they are continuing.

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