Despite Amazon’s curious decision to make the Kindle Fire a tall, thin tablet, it’s clearly made for reading. And news-hounds will be happy to see that the popular iOS and Android newsreader Pulse is coming to Fire.
Pulse pulls in your news feeds from Google Reader and shows articles to you in a very pretty grid of images. It will also pull in links from other sources like Facebook, Reddit, YouTube and Digg (remember Digg?)
Pulse is actually already available for Android, and can be had for free from Amazon’s Android app store. What’s most interesting is that Pulse, the company, is pushing this as if it were a new release for Kindle Fire. I expect this to happen a lot. In fact, given the expected success of Amazon’s $200 tablet, the Amazon app store will likely become the most important Android app store, quickly surpassing Google’s Android Market.
It may also make Android a better place for developers. Right now, most Android owners have their phones because they were the cheapest phone at the carrier’s store, and they don’t really use them as mini computers the way iPhone users do. And they sure don’t pay for apps.
The Kindle Fire, on the other hand, is designed to sell you stuff. People will buy it because they want to spend money, and Amazon will make it easy: The thing will arrive at your door already signed in to your Amazon account. Even Apple’s devices don’t do that.
Expect the Android software world to get a lot more interesting this November.
Pulse News product page [Amazon app store. Thanks, Jeff!]
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