![]() ![]() ![]() And I don’t see how they can get that trojan horse turned around and properly supporting the company that built it. If Kindle continues to be the default Android tablet by virtue of market choice, Google will be cut out of the market it created. Nice to know you’re working for Amazon if you’re on Google’s Android development team, isn’t it? And due to the nature of open source software, that genie don’t go back into that box. And it’s turned Google’s hard work at creating a competitive moat of protection and offence into Amazon’s best weapon. It’s very Sun Tzu of Jeff Bezos and company. Rock & roll, baby! This is how you win: turn your opponent’s strength into your strength. ![]() Amazon even replaced the Google app store with an Amazon app store.Amazon glue has replaced the Google glue.Google won’t make a penny on any Kindle shipped, because: Now that Google has so kindly provided a great almost-free platform for small mobile devices, including tablets, Amazon is capitalizing on it by hijacking the result for its own use. But still: it’s better, and it remains cheap.) Apple probably will start making money by licensing patents to Android device manufacturers as well. Due to patent encumbrances, Microsoft probably makes more money off Android right now than Google does, at least in the short term. Then it was free and good, even free and better. Even better, Android quickly got better than tired old WinMo, complicated Symbian, and limited BB OS. Free X beats marginally better X+1 … and Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BB OS were all very definitively unfree. It got big just as Apple was unleashing massive change in the mobile landscape, Microsoft/Nokia/BlackBerry all abysmally failed to respond with any even marginally capable riposte, and the carriers were desperate to compete with iPhoneīut the biggest reason was number 1: free, baby, free.It improved rapidly after Google saw Apple reveal what a modern mobile OS should be.It’s open source, so anyone can get the code, change the code, and re-release the code.Android never would have grown the way it did without three factors: The reason Amazon is able to do this is the same reason Android grew so quickly in the first place: open source. Unplug from Google (music, search, mail, apps, ads) plug in to Amazon (music, books, TV, products, movies, etc. That virus is Amazon, who is using the structure and foundation of Android, but has divorced it entirely from it’s Google services roots. A virus that infiltrated the Android dummy and took it over. But by and large, Google has not been very evil about its efforts.)īut now the Google trojan horse has a virus. (Google’s freedom, of course, is distinct from users’ freedom. And, as the old saying goes: no margin, no mission. Or Siri replacing 95% of users’ need to search Google on their iPhones. Freedom from those device manufacturers and operating system vendors who might step between Google and users and try to sever the connection … such as making Bing the default search engine in IE. So Android was supposed to guarantee Google’s freedom of access to users. And that’s a huge problem for Google.Īndroid is the trojan horse that Google gives away to device manufacturers and carriers which was designed to ensure that their customers and users would be more tightly (even if virtually) connected to Google … glued tighter via digital services that generate income flow long term than the atoms & molecules that hoover cash up front. ![]() That pales beside Apple’s almost 19 million units of iPad, but it’s the biggest number for Android tablets. Amazon doesn’t release sales numbers, but the whisper number in Taiwan is 4 million Kindles over the last three months of 2011. The basic reading experience is still great in both apps.The Kindle is absolutely killing it. Tldr: depends on how much features you want. Most third party readers though do support azw. I mean even Apple uses them! So if you amass a lot of books in azw you will have to spend some time trying to convert the books to epub if you want to switch to play books. This is a pain to deal with because the standard is epub. Now with kindle books, Amazon sells you the book in. The kindle app offers ability to do a lot more right on your device. Also there is no support for a collection of books like the Lord of the rings or Harry Potter. I just wish it allowed for more granular control of the metadata of the books and the cover. It just gets out of the way so you can enjoy the content. The basic change fonts, day/night themes and text size options are all there. if you just care about reading a book, the play books app is fine. I have a few epub files I uploaded and it's convenient to be able to open it up on any android device or PC. Can't say much about kindle books but play books is for the most part great. ![]()
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