Amazon asks iOS developers to bring apps over to Kindle

By martyr Wong 03/28/2011, 3:43 pm PT

Amazon KindleIt looks same Amazon rattling wants to intend in on the full app business. After actuation their own Android app store, the online mega-store has been reported to have sent invitations to third band developers to port their apps over to Kindle. The creators of the Kindle are ostensibly hunting for educational apps to increase the app collection of their own eBook reader. While it sounds same a good idea, Amazon will probably have a hornlike instance disenchanting folks porting apps for them. Firstly, the Kindle runs on the Linux-based Kindle OS, which means it won’t be a hurried ultimate repackage to intend the app employed on the paper (unlike Android to QNX on the PlayBook), and secondly the element of the Kindle is pretty restricted when study to iOS devices. Sure it has a enthusiastic battery-saving, daylight-readable E-ink display, but its slow change rate, and lack of colouration rattling dampens the category of apps that will see the reddened of period on the reader. You won’t be seeing Infinity Blade, RAGE or Angry Birds on your Kindle anytime presently (unless of instruction it’s a text-based version of the game). How some of you use your Kindle for anything another than reading books anyway?

 

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