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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

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Post by officeplant »

malfist wrote: post #23
SapporoChris wrote: post #5

"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

>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.

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by 999900000999 »

reaperducer wrote: post #34
SapporoChris wrote: post #5

"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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If I want to spin up a CI/CD pipeline to build an Android app that takes 30 seconds. I send you or anyone else the link and you can test it out.

With Apple I need to beg for my dev account to be approved, pay 100$ a year, and submit it via test flight.

If more than X numbers of people use it , ohh no I have to publish it via the app store. If it pleases King Cook, may I publish a game for my friends to play.

Google is starting to restrict Android too, custom system roms aren't as popular anymore, but theirs still a sense it's my phone.

With Apple, it's still Apple's phone, you've just purchased a revokable license to use it in accordance with the terms you agreed to.

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by vel0city »

malfist wrote: post #21
specialp wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone at Amazon (The only company I have seen using it) hated using Chime, and it wasn't at all on the level of competitors. So I think it was just an unsuccessful product.

Slack huddles use chime under the hood.

According to current press releases, the Chime SDK isn't going away just the Chime service sold directly to customers.

> Note: This does not impact the availability of the Amazon Chime SDK service.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/update-...

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by syntheticnature »

c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #53
numpad0 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that it's okay, but App Store/Play Store do the same. They don't refund for apps that have become unavailable.

This is different though, isn’t it? Amazon still exists. The whole platform is shutting down. Individual devs aren’t taking down their apps.

I had a Google Play app whose dev died. It was just a simple local app -- no network server usage. When I last upgraded my phone (due to imminent failure of the previous one) it refused to copy the app over -- and the app was no longer in the Play store.

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by shimfish »

SapporoChris wrote: post #5

"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…

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.

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by echoangle »

Arnt wrote: post #50
numpad0 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that it's okay, but App Store/Play Store do the same. They don't refund for apps that have become unavailable.

I thought most apps sell per-year subscriptions that then expire. Isn't that correct?

I don't know if it's "most" but there are (still) a lot of apps with one-time purchase. You never saw that in an Appstore?

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

SapporoChris wrote: post #5

"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's not many things digital that are going to have a half-life the length of your lifetime.

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by beerandt »

orf wrote: post #80
beerandt wrote: post #52

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They jumped through some pretty giant hoops to make their play services "drop in" replacement, but idk if that's just for fire tablets or if it gets installed on Android too.

What giant hoops? I’m interested in reading more

My very basic understanding is:

They wanted android developers that used google play services to basically be able to submit the same app to the amazon/fire store (without major revisions), so they reverse engineered the framework used by Google for api/hooks between the apps/apks and the "play-services"/OS levels.

Sort of spoofed the environment to prioritize compatibility in order to make it as easy as possible to grow the Amazon app store.

People don't realize that despite Android being nominally 'Open Source', the closed source Google layer on most phones makes it very difficult to exclude Google entirely from the picture and have a user friendly phone environment (both end-user and app-developer/playstore-user).

Basically only Amazon and China had resources to counter it directly with Android, or you could drop that layer and go the less user friendly route of st like AOSP 'pure' phones.

Re: The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

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Post by terminalbraid »

shimfish wrote: post #86
SapporoChris wrote: post #5

"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…

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.

Is there a major barrier to just doing it for all your paid purchases?
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