Amazon on Tuesday launched its Appstore for Android and the effort may hint at a bigger strategy for tablets.

Launching an Amazon Android store is an interesting trial balloon on the way to a broader strategy. The promise with Amazon’s Appstore for Android is that the software is vetted. The store is launching with 3,800 apps and the major categories are well covered.

It’s likely that other developers will take Amazon’s store more seriously now that it has launched.

I haven’t had a chance to take the store for a spin due to download issues. My Android device is set up to download the app, but it won’t take when I go to the URL. Other folks such as James Kendrick haven’t had any issues.

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