Amazon to End Program That Pays Developers for Alexa Apps

Amazon will stop paying developers to create applications — called Skills — for its voice assistant Alexa.This will end an offering that has been available to developers since 2017 and aimed to build an app store for Alexa, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (April 10).Amazon spokesperson Lauren Raemhild said in the report that the program was older, was designed to help accelerate the progress of newer developers and is currently used by fewer than 1% of developers.“Today, with over 160,000 skills available for ...