Sunday, January 15, 2012

Amazon Appstore soon in Europe?

While rumors are still running around the release of a Kindle Fire in Europe, what about the Amazon Appstore? According to AllThingsD our colleague, a source close to the firm would have reported that his shop would probably be Android available this summer, in addition, the tablet.
To date, the shop Amazon Appstore application is only available to the U.S. market and should arrive in Europe this summer. Launched in March 2011, its catalog includes more than 31,000 applications. The online store dedicated to androphone would play an alternative to Google. In this case, why have these two platforms? What does the Amazon Store catalog in addition to Google? If the Amazon Appstore is born, it is mainly to support its reading lights in which the tablet Kindle Fire should also land in Europe. Very popular, she suffered a significant drop in sales. In the U.S., 4.8 million Kindle had passed in the last quarter of 2011 against 750,000 in the first quarter 2012. The advent of the App Store may mean the arrival of the Kindle in Europe to enhance the numbers of the American. For information, the company that already have online stores in Europe (UK, France, Germany, etc..), This could reinforce the idea of marketing a slate in France.
Amazon Appstore
To recap, the Amazon store is available on any Android device. As for the Kindle Fire, it runs on Android 2.3 and features a 7 inch screen resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Led by a dual-core TI OMAP4 1 GHz supplemented with 512 MB of RAM, it also offers an 8 GB memory space available on the Amazon cloud.