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Amazon rolled out a new Appstore that is designed to compete with the Android Marketplace for Android smartphones. Through the store, Amazon promises you will find, discover, and have the ability to test new applications using a similar experience to what you're already accustomed to using on Amazon.com. It's certainly interesting to see a new app store roll out, and we couldn’t wait to check it out. Installation on our Thunderbolt from Verizon Wireless was simple. For starters, we simply entered our email address in the "Get Started" box on the right side of the main Appstore page located at https://www.amazon.com/apps. Shortly after doing so, we received an email link that we clicked...
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It's no secret that Microsoft's Marketplace is struggling in comparison to Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market. If you browse through these three online application stores, you'll see that Apple and Google have many more applications to offer compared to Microsoft. In fact, Apple has about 225,000 apps and Google has 65,000 in their respective app stores. To make matters worse for Microsoft, because the software giant is completely overhauling its mobile OS, programs developed for previous generations of the software won't work on Windows Phone 7. In other words, Microsoft is starting from scratch. Microsoft is working hard on its upcoming mobile OS known as Windows Phone 7, and the...
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