Korean Samsung, together with Fingerprint, is working on a mobile platform for children from Southeast Asia.
It is assumed that games and foreign language learning applications for children 3-7 years old will be distributed through it. The release will take place during the first quarter of 2014.
Programs that work with the network can be run on smartphones and tablets of the Samsung Galaxy family. In order to maintain the infrastructure and improve the quality and quantity of games available in it, Fingerprint developers have organized a huge $1 million fund supporting the integration and localization of various programs and interactive books.
The new network operates as part of Samsung Kids’ Play-and-Learn Content Initiative. Working with Asian regions is especially interesting for partners, as it allows them to work with a young audience in relatively prosperous countries where the middle class is rapidly developing.
According to experts, 50 million children aged 3 to 7 years live in these countries. It is for this audience that Samsung will offer reliable and safe educational games. Fingerprint, in turn, will bring 50 developers from 20 countries to the market by 2014.
Editor’s note: it is difficult to say at the moment how successful the platform will be, but the initiative itself seems very interesting to us. Parents who want to distract their child will not go to Google Play, search for apps for children in it, they will immediately launch the mentioned network, find suitable applications in it, pay for them and repeat this procedure the next time the child brings them a smartphone / tablet.
Source: pocketgamer.biz