Comment on Amazon owning app distribution is irrelevantparentComments−nl14yI suspect Samsung would love to operate their own App store, but of course they can't because they'd lose Google's support.Samsung runs their own Appstore. So do most carriers (and NVidia has one especially for Tegra devices).Google doesn't care, and most developers ignore them because the Google Market is where the action is.(In Amazon's case it is different because the Google Market isn't installed)−rbarooah14ySo both stores ship on Samsung's devices?Then I'd guess Samsung would probably be interested in not shipping the Google Market.I wonder what would happen if Samsung paid for an exclusive on a big name title - e.g. a future Angry Birds−fpgeek14ySo far, Samsung's exclusives are more about special features / APIs (like apps that use the Galaxy Note's pen).
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I suspect Samsung would love to operate their own App store, but of course they can't because they'd lose Google's support.
Samsung runs their own Appstore. So do most carriers (and NVidia has one especially for Tegra devices).
Google doesn't care, and most developers ignore them because the Google Market is where the action is.
(In Amazon's case it is different because the Google Market isn't installed)
So both stores ship on Samsung's devices?
Then I'd guess Samsung would probably be interested in not shipping the Google Market.
I wonder what would happen if Samsung paid for an exclusive on a big name title - e.g. a future Angry Birds
So far, Samsung's exclusives are more about special features / APIs (like apps that use the Galaxy Note's pen).