{"id":1218082,"date":"2025-02-20T12:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218082"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:35:47","slug":"amazon-remembers-it-has-an-android-app-store-kills-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218082","title":{"rendered":"Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon&#8217;s store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are off beginning on August 20, 2025. As part of the pull-back, the company is also discontinuing the Amazon Coins digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Appstore made waves when it <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2011\/03\/hands-on-amazon-appstore-for-android-surpasses-google-in-places\/\">launched in 2011<\/a>, offering an alternative to what at the time was known as the Android Market. Amazon even scored some early exclusives and gave away a plethora of premium content and Coins to anyone willing to do the legwork of installing the storefront on their Android phone.<\/p>\n<p>That level of attention didn&#8217;t last, though, and the Appstore today has hardly evolved from its humble beginnings, lacking most of the content and features people have come to expect from a mobile app store. If you want to check out the store on your phone before it goes away, you&#8217;ll have to sideload the client by downloading an APK from Amazon. This process isn&#8217;t hard, but it proved to be a significant barrier to entry for getting people into the Amazon ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/amazon-remembers-it-has-an-android-app-store-kills-it\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/amazon-remembers-it-has-an-android-app-store-kills-it\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon&#8217;s store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1218082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}