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Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market?
Thinkcloud writes "Speculation abounds that Amazon is planning their own storefront for selling Android apps, one in which they, not the developers, will set the price and decide which apps to feature (and which apps to exclude from the store all together). It's a shrewd move and smart strategy for Amazon, though its impact on app sellers is less certain."
In any case, this isn't a boon for developers, mainly because they now have at least two places they must keep their apps updated in.
Didn't you hear? Competition's always good in the market place of ideas!
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
"I can't believe anyone modded you as insightful." - by jedidiah (1196) on Friday October 01, @10:52AM (#33758960) Homepage
You're right to NOT believe it, because he may have "modded himself up", via alternate registered user accounts he/she has is all, & yes, it is VERY EASY to do.
Sound unreal? Guess again!
Fact is, others who are "in the know" online, & about this kind of thing in fact, have spoken of it before here as well (besides myself)!
Folks like Mr. Bruce Perens, & in this quote of his here for you to read & be aware of:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192
PERTINTENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed."
AND
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33092398
"I have been offered the online-perception-management services I'm talking about while managing at HP and Sourcelabs. If you are not aware of companys concern for their online perception and what they do about it, and won't take my word for it, there isn't much point in arguing about it with you"
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Yes, they changed alright: So much so, that "concerned parties" began keeping "flocks of their on-the-payroll faithful" around on largely travelled forums (like this one) to up mod that which is in their favor, and to downmod that which is NOT in their favor. There are even FIRMS that do that FOR THEM, for hire... pitiful! Like they're fooling anyone with any common-sense (not).
APK
P.S.=> So Jedediah? As was said to Neo in the film "The Matrix"?? "Welcome... to the REAL world!", & don't mind the smell kiddo - that's just the neo-con/neo-cheater wannabe-clever scumbags that infest this place and all others that think they are "clever" using multiple reg'd accounts here & elsewhere to pull their utter b.s. online...
Pitiful is what it is, and others ask me WHY I don't keep a "registered luser" account here? See above - says MOST of all that needs saying about that much! apk