Amidst the cacaphony of launch of Google’s Android phone, I saw a news clip that Google has worked with Amazon to provide a i-tunes like feature (I will call this feature Amazon-tunes so forth) in the Android platform. If first version of Android works without any major technical glitch then Amazon-tunes will provide a tough competition to i-tunes.
I-tunes are only sold through Apple devices. If Android platform becomes successful, then we will see many more mobile companies (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung etc.) manufacturing phones with Android platform. That means many more people will be using Android platform and many more will be downloading songs from Amazon-tunes.
Android is open source platform and it has all the features to go into consumer electronics and automobile applications so that provides Amazon more avenues to sell its Amazon-tunes. One can also move downloaded Amazon-tunes to other devices and this provides an other big advantage to users compared to i-tunes that can only be played on Apple devices.
So Android-Amazon relationship has all the ingredients to hit Apple’s billion dollar i-tunes market.
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