Comments on: Amazon Releases Android App Store Version 2.0, Kindle Fire Black Theme Included

By: Bjohn

Bjohn — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:38:00 +0000

Totally screwed up with the oversized fonts. On my 7′ tablet it looks fugly.

By: Anyone

Anyone — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:28:00 +0000

The size increase of the app is unacceptable (from 3 and change to almost 8MB!) … Google’s marketplace actually got smaller on the last update by over 2MB. Long live the Nexus One!

By: arslion

arslion — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:26:00 +0000

why people use amazon appstore, if they have already Android market. just for 1 free app daily ?

By: Arthur2142

Arthur2142 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:34:00 +0000

How could they overlook something so basic and simple???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:24:00 +0000

when the application restarts (mine decided to restart itself a while after i force closed it for this reason), the notification to download the app over wifi comes back too. this is going to get annoying real quick

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:23:00 +0000

this is annoying the sh!t out of me too. i don’t mind having the amazon app store on my phone, but there’s not much value in it for me other than the free app of the day. and even then, not much value, just a mindless chore i’ve been in the habit of doing every day.

a few days of this notification spam will probably tip the scale and outweigh any positives of having it installed.

By: Stephen Cox

Stephen Cox — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Ugh I still can’t download the large apps over 4G on my phone. Jesus Christ Amazon, my 4G is faster than my WiFi!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:55:00 +0000

That works Don’t like that I have to do that, but oh well.

Thanks!

By: Daniel Rowen

Daniel Rowen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:52:00 +0000

This update is a mixed bag, it’s nice how it handles app downloads and gives you a notification so you can install the app instead of having to go back into the App Store before it’ll pass the apk to the package installer. BUT the new GUI is kind of stupid. Across the top under “My Apps” it has “New” “Update Available” and “All” but “All” doesn’t show up cuz the font is too large even if there used to be room for all three buttons across my phone. It is stupid to make you drag the buttons to the left in order to see “All” when it is almost fitting cept for the arrow it puts to show it scrolls that basically just covers up the “all” button instead.

By: can't be blank

can't be blank — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:37:00 +0000

Amazon’s App Store also works on Google TV – Android’s updated Honeycomb OS.
I’ve loaded some fun stuff from it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:52:00 +0000

This version also supports in-app purchases and viewing app permissions before you buy the app

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:51:00 +0000

just like on honeycomb, the menu button appears when needed

By: Pat Cedrowski

Pat Cedrowski — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:25:00 +0000

Looks great- but I’m wondering how the hell is this UI going to work on the Galaxy Nexus? The only way to get into “My Apps” or “Settings” is via the hard Menu button. It’ll be interesting to see…

By: Chase Johnson

Chase Johnson — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:24:00 +0000

i had the same issue, i had a quick fix, go to Manage Apps, then Downloaded, click AppStore and force close, the notification goes away.

By: Chase Johnson

Chase Johnson — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:22:00 +0000

PLEASE STOP THE NOTIFICATIONS!
lol they are driving me crazy, “new app available” “2 updates available” “Downloading App” “App saved for Wifi only”

cant find a setting to turn them off.