Thursday, February 03, 2011

Disney Mobile Enters Android Tablet Market

This is rather fascinating. Disney Mobile is now making apps that will run under Google's Android Honeycomb OS.

Today, Decrem, now an executive in charge of Disney Mobile, announced that Disney is doing three mobile apps for the tablet-focused Honeycomb version of Android, which Google showed off today. Disney will release the Jelly Car game, Radio Disney music app, and Tap Tap Revenge 4 for Honeycomb. The apps will debut whenever Honeycomb-based devices, such as the Motorola Xoom, are released into the market. That’s going to be a matter of days or weeks.

Considering that Steve Jobs is on Disney's board of directors, and that Disney has been supporting a lot of Apple's product, it is interesting that Disney Mobile is also supporting the Android OS. Still, I think this shows that Jobs doesn't appear to be micro-managing these kinds of decision, and that it makes perfect business sense for Disney to not ignore a substantial portion of the market.

Zz.

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