The Amazon Appstore will no longer be available on Android as of August 20, 2025.
Ohh no. What are we gonna do without apps that haven’t been updated in 4 years?
I’m a bit torn.
I want there to be diversity and free choice regarding where I get my apps from, so one less choice only strengthens Google’s monopoly.
As a user, Amazon’s app store was just sketchy.
As a developer I don’t want to be submitting every update to yet another store for every release. I have had users mail me and ask to add my app to the Amazon app store, because their device didn’t come with Google’s play store.
I’m guessing the reason to create an entire store was so they didn’t have to pay Google a higher percentage?
back in the day it wasn’t clear that Google wanted a strong monopoly control over Android. Amazon was just another contender in the ecosystem.
