From the press release:
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that its suite of free Kindle reading apps now includes Kindle for Android. Customers around the world can now download this free application from Android Market and enjoy Amazon’s vast selection of Kindle books on their Android-powered devices. … Customers can learn more about Kindle for Android at www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid and can download the free app from Android Market.
Since I don’t have access to the Marketplace, I’m waiting to get it from someone else.
Update: kindle for Android.
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My first thoughts: Yeah, now Android has a Kindle app too…great. BUT, why is launched a day after a way better iPhone/iPAd version of the app was launched?
They are just asking for comparisons here. And the glaring omissions will not go unnoticed.
It’s predicatable that they would go for the larger market of iPhone/iPad users (There was a line of thousands to buy that phone last week, cmon), but treating Android users like second class citizens will not win them any fans.
Found a more detailed post about the app itself at Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/28/kindle-android/
No reason to not just release what they have now while they develop the better version. It’s not an instant process, and there’s no reason to hold out in the meantime.
Yes, I’d agree that in the future the releases should be synced.