Amazon to Open an Android App Store
PrintAmazon wants to take a crack at distributing Android apps and plans to open its own software store for Android smartphones, The Wall Street Journal reports. By doing so, Amazon would become an instant rival to Google and another potentially big thorn in Apple's side.
As things currently stand, the Android Market hosts some 80,000 apps and is the second largest behind Apple's 250,000-strong App Store. What effect Amazon would have on either of those stats remains to be seen.
It's unknown what Amazon's Android store would be called or when it might open, but according to an Amazon document The WSJ claims to have seen, the mega e-tailer would collect a 30 percent cut of all app sales, while developers would rake in the remaining 70 percent.
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