Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Amazon’s Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser [TechCrunch]

Amazon app innovation

And while there were leaks abound about this morning’s launch, there are still a few details that Amazon managed to keep quiet.

The biggest one: Amazon will let you ‘Test Drive’ nearly any Android application in the App Store directly from your browser using some very interesting technology. Click the ‘Test Drive’ button, and Amazon will launch an emulated instance of Android on its EC2 cloud, which you’ll be able to control directly from your browser (it uses Flash). Some features won’t work right now (like functions that take advantage of the phone’s accelerometer) but you should be able to at least get the gist of what you’re buying. Amazon was unable to give me early access to this prior to today’s launch, but I’ll update with my impressions as soon as I get to try it out.

Amazon’s Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser

1 comment:

Atlanta Roofing said...

Instead of suing Amazon for using appstore, they might as well change the name to "apple store". It is rather unlikely that they would win, since "app" basically means "applications", which is an everyday word.