The Maps API Amazon Fate Of Beta

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Amazon has a knack for inviting where competition does not really expected, so too does its mapping application that makes available in its final version on Kindle platform. So far, this is indeed Google Maps that is installed by default with the purchase of a Kindle Fire, the Amazon tablet multimedia. Choice "default" to satisfy customers could soon be replaced by the Amazon home solution.

Amazon presented its API mapping and geolocation last September, leaving him time to improve through a beta phase. Giant online sales has today announced the end of the status and availability of the final version of its application. The API has attracted the interest of developers like Hipmunk, Evernote, Trulia or Zillow that have directly implemented in their respective applications, Amazon offers it may soon own version of GPS application in its next Kindle tablet. Leveraging interactive maps and layers customizable, it is still early to know whether the mapping service will be place next to Google Maps widespread in the market for smartphones and tablets.   However, the deliberate choice of Amazon shows a little more control of the manufacturer to differentiate a little Google and want to create as a legitimate identity in the market for mobile devices.

The Kindle Fire stands against the iPad and Galaxy Tab

Far from the big battles that against Apple to Samsung, Amazon's Kindle Fire wins the successful as expected.




To combat Apple, the makers of tablets products take advantage in a hunt for the iPad. All? No. Amazon has quietly remained in the niche map lights before unveiling the Kindle Fire. This Android tablet features a color touch screen, a sleek design, is displayed at a price less than $ 200 and gives access to Amazon's catalog, one of the most of provided Web.

Only available in the U.S., the Kindle Fire wins with the success forecast by being a place in the cutthroat world of tablets. Keeping the secrecy of results of this launch, it is the analyst firms that produce forecasts of sales. Stifel Nicolaus had predicted a score of 5 million tablets sold in the fourth quarter of 2011. The firm recently revised his forecasts upwards, bringing them to 6 million. Of course, the company of Jeff Bezos was careful to confirm those figures.

A different study, conducted by the company Flury, confirms the success of the tablet from Amazon. She reports that in two months the Kindle Fire stole the show at the Galaxy Tab by Samsung, becoming the most popular with 36% of all activities of Android tablets. The Kindle Fire still has everything to prove because it is always expected in Europe. Launched in the U.S. market in November 2011, its launch on this side of the Atlantic is still not announced.