so Ipad sales drop for the first time yoy for a quarter, and profits dropped as well. Should Apple decrease the prices? Should they be worried?

[famousringo]

Zappykins said:

famousringo said:

 

There are important differences depending on who you are. For example, developers need to deal with a different app store if they want to target Kindle users, with different requirements, services, and terms and conditions. If you're Google, your default search status is gone and all your apps and services have been stripped out.

Even the end user, who might supposedly use the same apps and services whether it's a Kindle or a Nexus, will find that the default apps and services guide their usage patterns. Most people tend to go with the default, unless they have a very compelling reason to change.

It's been estimated that a third of Android devices have no Google services at all, leading analysts to joke that Android is not a platform itself, but rather a platform for platforms.

Thanks for that, I had forgot, and didn't realize so much that Amazon strips out of the regular Android. 

I assume behind the scenes Microsoft would so love to make the OS for Kindel and there have been some serious negotiation.  This is just pure speculation on my part, but I assumed before they make the Surface, they pushed hard (or should have) on Amazon.  There is a probably, more than healthy, level of competition between their web businesses.

Bing is the default search engine on Kindle. I don't think the partnership will go much further. Amazon's strategy is to sell the hardware as cheaply as possible and make it back with content sales and advertising/analytics. Licensing Windows (and upgrading their hardware to run it, Windows seems to require more storage and RAM) is an expense they don't seem to need, especially since Amazon's app store seems to be one of the more lucrative ones out there. I've seen more than one dev claim to earn more from Amazon than from Google.