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Is Amazon creating an Android game console?
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Today in Open Source: Amazon is heavily promoting Android game development. Plus: Is Amazon working on an Android game console? And Amazon is recruiting for a secret project.
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If they do one I suspect that their model will be the Apple TV. Amazon had no problems following in Apple's footsteps by releasing the Kindle Fire tablets, which certainly owe a lot to Apple's iPad. So it makes sense for Amazon to emulate the Apple TV, but with an emphasis on gaming (an area that Apple has lagged far behind in on the TV).
Amazon is a very smart company so I wouldn't put it past them to do a videogame console as well as a phone. Why not? They have a built in customer base of millions of people, and each device they sell brings more and more people into their content ecosystem. Full Story |
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