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Amazon App Store Thread - Daily Free Apps

Thanks for the update. Has anyone emailed the URL of the thread to the developer? I'm all for devs getting paid, but not this way. At least for me with freeware or lite apps, it feels to sneaky and invasive. I'll take ads within the app any day.
 
I'll do it. Where is the thread? If users aren't proactive with developers, the ads will be proactive on our phones.
 
Probably. But I don't think it's possible to apply too much pressure here.
 
I thought some may be interested in the reply I got from the dev:


It is an ads supported game and I got a team to feed. It just ads and no malware. I have increased the push interval and removed the dating ads.

Thanks for the feedback
 
RyanB said:
I thought some may be interested in the reply I got from the dev:


It is an ads supported game and I got a team to feed. It just ads and no malware. I have increased the push interval and removed the dating ads.

Thanks for the feedback
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Yes, but it adds ads to your device even if you never run his app. It's low-life spam.
 
I agree, and in my reply asked if alternative means could be found for delivery of ads
 
Anyone happen to know what apps were free for September 3rd-6th?

September 2011
01/09/11
Beat the Traffic Plus 1
02/09/11
Checkbook 2
03/09/11
?
04/09/11
?
05/09/11
?
06/09/11
?
07/09/11
Spinballs 7
08/09/11
Weather,USA Radar,Alerts,Quake,Barometer 8
09/09/11
Drag Racing Premium 9
10/09/11
What's for Dinner? Premium
11/09/11
SPC - Music Sketchpad
12/09/11
Seal
13/09/11
Word Mix
14/09/11
Diet Assistant Pro
15/09/11
Airport Mania 2: Wild Trips
Meteor Blitz
16/09/11
PrinterShare Mobile Print
17/09/11
I Must Run!
18/09/11
Greedy Spiders
19/09/11
Box It! 2
20/09/11
Warheads
21/09/11
Happy Vikings
22/09/11
ILLUSIA
23/09/11
MLB.com At Bat 11
24/09/11
CircleLauncher
25/09/11
Screebl Pro
26/09/11
Treasures of Montezuma 2
27/09/11
Handrite Note Pro
28/09/11
Cut the Rope
29/09/11
Symphony of Eternity
30/09/11
SportCaster: Pro (Sports, Twitter)
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There's another $15 app for free today (11/14/2011), and it doesn't look so bad. Quickoffice Pro says it handles Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and PDF, has access to Google Docs, Dropbox, and other cloud storage apps, and lets you paste pictures into documents.

Amazon's updated AppStore now has a list of permissions to browse before you install, too, and it doesn't look so bad (even though Amazon's permission descriptions are different from Android's). It has read access to contacts and SMS, but those seem reasonable for an app that you might use to send to a contact or paste from SMS. ("Read phone state and identity" is pretty much a given, it seems). I'm especially happy that it doesn't feel the need to start at boot.

And get this: it's even movable to SD. A very nice feature, seeing as how Android reports the application as taking up a whopping 12.84MB (it was a 6MB download!).

Haven't really used it yet, except to accept the usual EULAs (always read the EULA!). It wants you to register your copy, but it's not required. Main screen looks pretty professional, though -- I suspect that when I need it, it'll be just what I was looking for.
 
I got the "$14.99" QuickOffice Pro today and the "$14.99" OfficeSuite Pro the other day when it ran free. Both are sitting in the cloud. Which is better? I don't use anything like that too much (prefer to do it on a PC), but if I can eliminate my pdf reader and have a full suite, that would be nice.
 
This morning, the Amazon Appstore reported that it was ready to upgrade itself... that's twice in a week. I'm guessing that today's update was for bug fixes.

Last week's big update did a little bit of UI jiggling, but the most welcome change I saw was addition of a "Permissions" section. Now, I don't have to wait until I install (or, often, refuse to install) to see what the application wants.

Strangely, though, Amazon doesn't use the same descriptions as the Android OS. For example, today's FAotD is a game called "Eve of the Genesis", which wants "full Internet access" by Android's wording. (And that's just about all, so I'm installing it.) Amazon calls this "Open network sockets", which while accurate, isn't terribly clear. They call "Read phone state and identity" (which this game doesn't need, yay) something more pleasant, like "read-only access to phone status".

Side note: "Eve of the Genesis" doesn't have its "move to SD" flag set, but Titanium Backup will take care of that little oversight. ;)
Update: Strangely enough, it's *already* on the SD card. I'm sure I didn't move it using App2SD, Titanium, or the System Info screen. Perhaps automatic install-to-SD is a feature that the Appstore has added? I don't see a setting to turn it on/off.

Any other quirks and oddities I should know about the Amazon Appstore app?

Also interesting: the Amazon Appstore upgrade came just a day or two after Google updated their own Market app. A rushed release would explain the Amazon bugfix a week later!
 
Good news and bad news today, I guess.

Good news: Bejeweled 2, the game that everybody and their mom (well, not me, but definitely my mom) plays compulsively on the PC, is the FAotD.

Bad news: The sucker is a whopping, unbelievable, ginormous 43.5MB.

Are you kidding me? Maybe if EA got the rights to make an Android port of CoD MW3, I'd expect it to be over 40MB. But Bejeweled? A game that can be summed up in two words, "falling jewels", takes up more space on my Android than my first PC's hard drive contained in total capacity?

Even if the App Store loads the app directly to the SD card (which it would *have* to do on my low-end phone), that's just a ridiculous size for a casual-gaming app. WTF did EA stuff in that thing?

At least the permissions aren't outrageous. It wants to send SMS for some reason, because all your friends are DYING to know that you're playing Bejeweled AGAIN. And it does have PowerManager permission (at least that's what Amazon calls it) so that it can keep your processor running full-tilt. Which it will need to do if it's going to grind through 40MB of rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.
 
yes.. i am not sure I want to own that thing...

the size (40mb) and SMS permission... makes me worry about that is in that thing... and what it wants to do in my phone...
 
I @#$%ING HEART Amazon's Free App of the day! I wouldn't be an App whore if it wasn't around!

Autodesk's Sketchbook Mobile is free today! Go GO NOW!!
 
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