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Why is it so hard to get good Apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire?

Thursday, June 1, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

We need App Store freedom!

Greed is holding the computer industry. If the future of computing is in mobile devices and tablets, we need better cooperation between device manufacturers so that popular Apps work on every platform. As things stand now, you can't run a lot of the most popular iOS Apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire, and that's a shame.

Amazon blocks Apps from just about any company that competes with them. That's why you won't find third-party apps for books, music, or movies, including Barnes and Noble's Nook, or the Google Play Store. As a matter of fact, they even block third party browsers like FireFox and Google Chrome because they want to monitor and control all your web searches.

This problem isn't limited to Amazon's Kindle Fire. Apple has similar restr... [More]

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Why Are There No Apps for Old Phones?

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

Upgrading your smartphone is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity, because there are virtually no App for older phones.

What happens to all the old smartphones whenever a new model comes out? Some people trade them in. Other people give them to a younger family member, but the bottom line is, as long as they're not broken, somebody else will use them. Unfortunately, they eventually become obsolete, but why does it have to be that way?

The word "Obsolete" seems strange when it comes to smartphones, because they were cutting edge only a couple of years earlier, and they still work, so why can't you keep on using them? The problem is is that you can't find Apps that work on older phones because the App Stores only include the latest Apps. That's just plain wrong.

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The App Store is Missing a Critical Feature

Sunday, January 29, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

Why doesn't Apple's App Store have an option to sell upgrades to existing customers?

Selling upgraded versions to existing customers has always been one of the most important sources of revenue for App Developers, but for some reason, Apple still doesn't have an option for selling upgraded versions.

While this may not seem like a problem for consumers, it's a deal breaker for a lot of software developers because it means that they won't be able to tap into their existing customer base to sell upgrades. This is one reason many software companies bypass the Mac App Store entirely and look for other ways to market and distribute their software, which isn't easy.

Without this critical feature, some software companies are forced to introduce alternate versions of their Apps wit... [More]

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Our Latest Posts About: App Stores

Why is it so hard to get good Apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire?

We need App Store freedom!

Why Are There No Apps for Old Phones?

Upgrading your smartphone is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity, because there are virtually no App for older phones.

The App Store is Missing a Critical Feature

Why doesn't Apple's App Store have an option to sell upgrades to existing customers?

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