Did Amazon start a new round of cost cutting, layoffs or something? Yesterday they discontinued Chime. As if Amazon is doubling down on cutting "unnecessary" services
Thank god chime is gone
The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
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Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#102My bet is that Amazon is working on a new OS that's not compatible with Android
they'd probably be better off setting a pile of money on fire instead
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
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There needs to be some recourse here. Amazon isn't going bankrupt and closing business. They need to honor their customer commitments. After all, earn trust and customer obsession are two of their leadership principles
>They need to honor their customer commitments. I assume there is already something in the EULA covering their asses. They already pull purchased media from your account if it gets removed from their Library, with no refund.
> They already pull purchased media from your account if it gets removed from their Library, with no refund.
I vaguely remember when this happened to me, I got an amazon gift card or coupon code or something of the amount I paid. I'm not saying they will do the same in this instance, but maybe?
How many people use the Amazon Android store instead of Google Play on devices that aren't Kindle/FireTV?
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
There needs to be some recourse here. Amazon isn't going bankrupt and closing business. They need to honor their customer commitments. After all, earn trust and customer obsession are two of their leadership principles
I'm sure you can take them to the small claims court, of course if you do that Amazon ban you from ever using any of their services. Given how many people rely on Amazon prime these days that's not a pleasant prospect.
You’ve just described a nearly perfect cliche 80s dystopia.
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
There needs to be some recourse here. Amazon isn't going bankrupt and closing business. They need to honor their customer commitments. After all, earn trust and customer obsession are two of their leadership principles
I'm sure you can take them to the small claims court, of course if you do that Amazon ban you from ever using any of their services. Given how many people rely on Amazon prime these days that's not a pleasant prospect.
My credit card gave me a free subscription to Walmart’s version of Prime. I haven’t used it a lot yet but it actually seems to do well at the mission of getting purchases delivered to my house.
It also lacks a dozen side services I don’t use. If you’re all in on Amazon Music, that’d be a con.
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#106"What happens to my apps after the discontinuation of the Amazon Appstore on Android?" "Starting August 20, 2025, any apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore will not be guaranteed to operate on Android devices. Amazon Appstore will continue to be available elsewhere, including on Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices. " --------- So for people that purchased apps through Amazon Appstore, what are their options for apps t…
There needs to be some recourse here. Amazon isn't going bankrupt and closing business. They need to honor their customer commitments. After all, earn trust and customer obsession are two of their leadership principles
When you say isn't closing business, that's precisely what they are doing. Amazon is an umbrella company with many business operating underneath it. Their app store is just another vertical like AWS is separate from the retail site. If they choose to stop offering a service, that's their prerogative.
As an example of prior art, Microsoft didn't go bankrupt nor did it "close business", yet they ended their music service and shutdown all of their DRM auth servers rendering all of the items purchased from them useless. This is the same thing.
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#107Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an app developer, I'm looking forward to having to answer all the emails asking for me to transfer their purchases to Google Play.
Do free promotions ( https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... ) still work ? And how would you even validate the emails against Amazon Appstore purchases?
I'd assume they would have a record of the user in their database. How else would they earn money from the data harvesting their app is a cover for? For the small number of apps that aren't solely data harvesting, surely they still have records of their users in a database as well? This question almost reads as if you're assuming the only record of an app would be through the store and not by the app developers themselves. I would find that truly shocking and quite comically sad if true.
It seems like it would be trivial for a user to login to the app acquired from a different store to be able to display a "welcome back" or even something along the lines of a "restore purchases" type of thing.
This can't be reinventing the wheel kind of a thing.
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#109"What happens to my apps after the discontinuation of the Amazon Appstore on Android?" "Starting August 20, 2025, any apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore will not be guaranteed to operate on Android devices. Amazon Appstore will continue to be available elsewhere, including on Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices. " --------- So for people that purchased apps through Amazon Appstore, what are their options for apps t…
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It's my understanding that the majority of people who want alternative app stores for iOS don't necessarily want something like an Amazon App Store, but rather something like F-Droid.
I would love to be able to install weird, open source apps on my iPhone, the same way I could on my Android phones.
Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
#110My bet is that Amazon is working on a new OS that's not compatible with Android
Big news if fifteen years ago