Amazon.com Soliciting iOS Developers To Create Apps For Kindle
Apple Insider is reporting that Amazon.com are actively soliciting iOS developers to create apps for their Kindle device. Specifically, it seems they are seeking out educational app developers.
We all know how good the Kindle is as an e-reader and it has become very popular within the educational environments, so in many ways it is no surprise to us that Amazon.com’s move will be successful. They are not trying to compete with Apple and the iPad and this is a good thing. Microsoft have tried but failed in the past to bring iOS developers to their Zune and WP7 platforms, enough to really fluff Apple’s feathers, that is.
This Amazon.com move is more to do with competing with the Nook e-reader made by Barnes & Noble. Apparently, Barnes & Noble are pushing out a Nook Color update in April that will upgrade the current $250 e-reader into a basic 7 inch Android tablet. It seems that Amazon have timed this move just right.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
