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Amazon App Store Thread - Daily Free Apps

It's not running on my phone either. I do agree with you that it's BS that you have to have the app store installed in order to access any of your apps though.
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You didn't have to install the Amazon App Store. If you don't like the fact that you need to have the app store installed to use the apps you get then just get rid of the apps and the app store. We're not talking rocket science here.
 
You didn't have to install the Amazon App Store. If you don't like the fact that you need to have the app store installed to use the apps you get then just get rid of the apps and the app store. We're not talking rocket science here.

Someone got on me for suggesting it wasn't cool of Amazon to require you to have their store installed, and I kind of let it go, but my feeling is this:

It's a trust issue. I love Amazon, I love how open and fair they are to their customers, and how they seem to have adopted Google's *previous* philosophy of "You don't need to do evil to be successful."

So it's a little ding in their armor when I find out they're trying to lock me in to their app. It's not that it's unreasonable, or that they're FORCING me to use it, because yeah I can just uninstall it. It somehow, in my mind, draws parallels of Verizon (et al) creating this infinite loop of-- to realistically buy our phones, you need to create a 2-year contract, and you get a phone that lasts a year and a half... but you can get a new one, with another 2-year contract, until your phone stops working in a year and a half...

If Amazon's as great as they seem to be, do they really need to try and sneakily force me into keeping their app? Isn't being higher quality enough? I'd keep the Amazon App Store on my phone and use it just out of support for them... I don't really like that they're trying to MAKE me, after the fact.

But you're right, if you don't like it, uninstall and move on to something else.


p.s. I'm not TOO upset about this, because I get that it's kind of the standard thing to do, and as far as I know it's possible that having their app installed is the only way to keep the apps functioning properly. Maybe they literally can't make a version where uninstalling their app keeps your other apps working.

edit: as a good analogy, let's say your favorite band comes out with a new album. There's a catch: to listen to their new album, you have to have their entire discography purchased. Now, okay, it's your favorite band so you have their entire discography purchased ANYWAY, but don't you like them a little less now that they're MAKING you have their entire discography? Yes. Can you just move on to another band and not listen to your favorite band? Yes. But they're your favorite-- you WANT to listen to them, you're GOING to, but you still don't think it's very fair.
 
Someone got on me for suggesting it wasn't cool of Amazon to require you to have their store installed, and I kind of let it go, but my feeling is this:

It's a trust issue. I love Amazon, I love how open and fair they are to their customers, and how they seem to have adopted Google's *previous* philosophy of "You don't need to do evil to be successful."

So it's a little ding in their armor when I find out they're trying to lock me in to their app. It's not that it's unreasonable, or that they're FORCING me to use it, because yeah I can just uninstall it. It somehow, in my mind, draws parallels of Verizon (et al) creating this infinite loop of-- to realistically buy our phones, you need to create a 2-year contract, and you get a phone that lasts a year and a half... but you can get a new one, with another 2-year contract, until your phone stops working in a year and a half...

If Amazon's as great as they seem to be, do they really need to try and sneakily force me into keeping their app? Isn't being higher quality enough? I'd keep the Amazon App Store on my phone and use it just out of support for them... I don't really like that they're trying to MAKE me, after the fact.

But you're right, if you don't like it, uninstall and move on to something else.


p.s. I'm not TOO upset about this, because I get that it's kind of the standard thing to do, and as far as I know it's possible that having their app installed is the only way to keep the apps functioning properly. Maybe they literally can't make a version where uninstalling their app keeps your other apps working.

edit: as a good analogy, let's say your favorite band comes out with a new album. There's a catch: to listen to their new album, you have to have their entire discography purchased. Now, okay, it's your favorite band so you have their entire discography purchased ANYWAY, but don't you like them a little less now that they're MAKING you have their entire discography? Yes. Can you just move on to another band and not listen to your favorite band? Yes. But they're your favorite-- you WANT to listen to them, you're GOING to, but you still don't think it's very fair.


I "think" the reason you need the app is to prove you purchased an app. I don't have a problem with this approach. If I bought an app from Amazon and I don't need their app store installed, whose to say I don't use a program like Astro, export the apk file and give it to someone else? That would be stealing..... So with the Amazon app store installed, it can check to see if I truly purchased the app and my "friend" couldn't use the apk file.

Now as far as free apps go, I am not sure of a "need" for the Amazon app store to be there.

If what I stated above is incorrect, hopefully someone will correct me.
 
as a good analogy, let's say your favorite band comes out with a new album. There's a catch: to listen to their new album, you have to have their entire discography purchased. Now, okay, it's your favorite band so you have their entire discography purchased ANYWAY, but don't you like them a little less now that they're MAKING you have their entire discography? Yes. Can you just move on to another band and not listen to your favorite band? Yes. But they're your favorite-- you WANT to listen to them, you're GOING to, but you still don't think it's very fair.

Your analogy is a little incorrect. Amazon is not "MAKING" you buy their entire app catalog just to use one app. What it does is the same thing Google's Market does. The developers of the apps use the Market or Amazon Store to verify that the app was properly obtained. When you purchase an app from the Market, the developers use the Market to verify this. Purchasing something from Amazon, the developers do the same thing.

Even Apple does this with iTunes and their apps. To listen to a song, you have to have iTunes installed so the artist knows that you obtained the song legally.

Even though you are getting the free app of the day, it technically is a paid app, hence the aforementioned applies to them as well. Just like the previous poster, I don't know if this applies to the regularly free apps.
 
I "think" the reason you need the app is to prove you purchased an app. I don't have a problem with this approach. If I bought an app from Amazon and I don't need their app store installed, whose to say I don't use a program like Astro, export the apk file and give it to someone else? That would be stealing..... So with the Amazon app store installed, it can check to see if I truly purchased the app and my "friend" couldn't use the apk file.

Now as far as free apps go, I am not sure of a "need" for the Amazon app store to be there.

If what I stated above is incorrect, hopefully someone will correct me.

Ok, but I CAN just go on the internet and get the app for free. If I'm someone that knows how to take the apk file of a paid app and give it to someone else, I'm someone that knows how to get it off the internet (potential virus threats aside).
Maybe it's their reasoning, but the "prove you purchased it" theory for requiring the app store to be installed doesn't hold up for me.
 
Agreed, lately they have sucked, but it's free so we can't really complain.
Sure we can.
It's a form of advertising.

Or to put it in a more sinister light.
Remember the old saw about dope dealers?
They give you some freebies to get you interested and before you know it, you are hooked.

I am not interested in having another proprietary "loading" app on my phone as I don't see myself buying apps from Amazon.
 
Hopefully with all the lame app's lately we will get a really good one soon!

Could it be today? No. Today's free app is Meteor Brick Breaker - regularly $3.99 (?!) It is another attempt at rewriting Breakout. It has pretty bad reviews if you're one to go by them.
 
Could it be today? No. Today's free app is Meteor Brick Breaker - regularly $3.99 (?!) It is another attempt at rewriting Breakout. It has pretty bad reviews if you're one to go by them.


But if you read the reviews the bad ratings are because of morons giving it bad reviews because the app is $4.99, that is not a review in my opinion it sounds like a bad decision by the user. If you don't want to pay $4.99 then don't buy the app. The price of an app does not qualify as a review. It appears the children from Marketplace are making their way to Amazon yet they must find 25 words which can be a challenge for them. :D

There are plently of reviews on this app that it plays fine and folks enjoy it.
 
Are all of you able to run PhotoVault? It appears the EVO is not compatible.

Also, there was someone that posted a link to a similar list oustide the forums where he had a running total of the prices for the games and I was wondering if anyone knew what it was...apparently it was deleted or something.
 
Could it be today? No. Today's free app is Meteor Brick Breaker - regularly $3.99 (?!) It is another attempt at rewriting Breakout. It has pretty bad reviews if you're one to go by them.

I downloaded it and it is pretty fun. A lot better than some of the other recent apps.
 
Fancy Widget Pro is the Free app today. I would go as far as to say that the app today is certainly not crap.
 
I was not impressed with this. Thought it was very plain. In addition, the skins did not seem to be available for it.
 
I've read that some people were able to get skins and others couldn't. Unfortunately I was one that couldn't. Would have been nice to try it out. Maybe I'll reinstall and try again.
 
Today is Roller, which is an interesting mix of crap and amusing.

Simple little skee-ball game that seems to never light up the correct score and you need to flick quite more then I expected to hit the hundreds. I do like that you can have 4 balls in the play field at once though.
 
I was not impressed with this. Thought it was very plain. In addition, the skins did not seem to be available for it.
I had this problem as well. I uninstalled pretty quick and will be sticking with Beautiful Widgets.

The description of Roller as a mix of crap and amusing is very apt. :D
 
Today's freebie is "Collapse!"
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.realarcade.CL4&feature=search_result

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The blockbusting game returns with custom characters and fantastic foes!The blockbusting, color-matching excitement of COLLAPSE! returns with award-winning gameplay, all-new customizable characters, and fantastic foes like the mighty Blocktopus and Blockula! Use explosive power-ups, buy amazing upgrades and bust those blocks!
 
Collapse is a pretty fun game. I have had it on my iPod Touch and enjoy it. I downloaded it this morning and will get to enjoy it from the beginning again on my phone.
 
Just go to amazon.com from a desktop pc, nav to the app market, fill in your email address to download the app, then open the email from your phone, and install it.
 
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