Amazon's always looking for
creative new
ways to distribute digital media -- and in light of its recently-launched
Video On Demand service and the decent head of steam
AmazonMP3 has managed to build, it'd probably just
love to shoehorn its way onto a high-profile mobile device right about now. VentureBeat is reporting a juicy rumor of a G1 that made an appearance somewhere in San Fran's seedy underbelly over the weekend bearing an Amazon music and video app designed to dole out media for cash, suggesting that Android's first commercial hardware might come out of the gate ready not just to lock horns with the iPhone's WiFi App Store, but also to straight-up beat it by throwing in movie and TV download capability. Then again, no 3G network -- particularly one with
as small of a footprint as T-Mobile's -- is mighty enough to effectively do feature-length movie downloads over the aether, so it remains to be seen exactly how this would all play out. Get a good night's sleep this evening, folks, because if everything goes according to plan, we'll have some solid answers
in just a few short hours.
posted Sep 22nd 2008 9:08PM
I think AmazonMP3 is a great service to build in to the phone (to any 3G phone in fact). This might bw a great selling point for the Android phone (over the iPhone) as well as the rumours of free Gmail on it.
AmazonUnbox is a different thing because who wants to stream movies where 3G still has latency issues.
But online mp3 will be a huge sell. I would love to have this as I buy all my music these days from AmazonMP3.
And if this really comes truu (and I hope Amazon extends this app to other platforms as well), then forget 'SlotMusic'.
THat's VERY Exciting News!!!!
I love AMazon's MP3 service and use it to purchase the Majority of my Music so I will DEFINATELY be using that service if it does in Fact make its way onto my T-Mobile G1 GOogle ANdroid Phone
So aside from the plants placed by the amazon marketing dept anyone else thinking; yah iphone apps are great and all but watching a whole movie or tv episode on a 3" screen just ain't gonna take off? An iphone app is good cuz you can use it for a few min then revisit it later, a movie or tv episode though, you're away from a home tv like what, 9 hours at work, you can't wait a third of a day to watch a tv episode where you're not squinting to figure out what character's talking?