Amazon Ends Payments to Developers for Alexa Apps

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Amazon Ends Payments to Developers for Alexa Apps
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Amazon has announced that it will no longer pay developers to create applications for Alexa, ending its Alexa Developer Rewards Programme. The company is also winding down a programme that offered free credits for Alexa developers to use Amazon Web Services. Despite this, developers can still make money through in-app purchases.

no longer pay developers to create applications for Alexa , scrapping a key element of the company’s effort to build a flourishing app store for its voice-activated digital assistant .

Despite losing the direct payments, developers can still monetise their efforts with in-app purchases The company has since sold millions of Alexa-powered gadgets, but the technology appears far from the cutting-edge amid an explosion in chatbots using generative artificial intelligence. Amazon is working to add more generative AI capabilities to the software.

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