A German blog has posted screenshots of what it claims are mockup pages of an Amazon Android app store, but app prices undercut those found in Google's own Android Market.
Androidnews chanced upon the shots by typing in "http://www.amazon.com/apps" "just for funzies," the blogger wrote. It led him to a microsite, which now directs to the Kindle Store, showing a horizontal slider and 48 app icons. Most of the apps, like Vignette, Scan2PDF Mobile 2.0, and Newsweek Mobile, were priced just below the same apps found in Google Market. Similarly, last year Amazon angered book publishers by pricing Kindle e-books far below physical books, forcing Amazon to revise its pricing strategy.
The blogger also spotted an exclusive app: "Call of Duty: Modern Warefare: Force Recon."
Amazon has yet to make an official announcement about its upcoming app store, but on Monday game developer Rovio said that its highly anticipated "Angry Birds Rio" game will be one of the first available in the app store. Rovio has previously said Angry Birds Rio would launch on March 22.
On Thursday, Amazon discounted several bestselling Kindle games to $0.99, for a limited time.
Amazon unveiled plans to launch its own app store when it released the Appstore Developer Portal in January. Although Amazon will charge developers $99 a year for the exposure, compared to Google's $25 anual fee, Amazon has said it will waive the fee for developers who joined early.