Amazon Fire Phone Catching On

The new Amazon Fire phone is catching on with developers.

App submissions are at record level after Amazon Fire Phone launch

Five weeks after its launch, app submissions are at record levels, the company says, and the app submissions to the Amazon App store has more than doubled.  (To provide context, the data sample is only five weeks long and thus without comparing directly to the Apple or Google app stores such submission rate increases are statistically inconclusive.)

“When we launched Fire phone, we couldn’t wait to see what developers were going to build with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly,” said Mike George, Vice President, Amazon...