Amazon will take goodbye to your Android application store starting next August 20. The company has issued a statement For developers and has detailed on its support website What will happen to the store From this date.
The reason is clear and transparent: users were not using the store beyond the Amazon devices themselves. Therefore, they decide to stop supporting Android and turn it into an alternative only for their own products.
What will happen to the Amazon store. Amazon App Store will stop working on August 20. As of this date, the company does not guarantee the operation of the applications discharged from it.
Although it will disappear on Android, it will continue to be available on Amazon’s own devices, such as Fire TV and Fire Tablet. The goal is to keep the store alive only on the company’s devices.
What happens to the COINS? Amazon App Store had its own currency, the Amazon Coins. These are used to make purchases inside the store, but also within the apps unloaded through it.
The Amazon Coins balance will be completely reimbursed, so you will not lose the money invested in them.
The reason: lack of users. Amazon has alluded to a clear reason: his store was not being used enough (at least on devices outside his ecosystem).
“We have decided to discontinue Amazon’s appthore on Android to focus our efforts on the experience of the appthore on our own devices, since it is there where the vast majority of our clients are currently interacting.”
There is only a possible rival. Play Store is (and will remain in the short term) the most used store in the world. It is estimated that it has between 2,500 and 3,000 million active users, something logical when pre -installed on all Android telephone. This store covers practically all globable markets, saving some markets such as Chino.
Competing against this mastodon is an arduous task, although there are few efforts to achieve it. Huawei, with great support from the Chinese government, is making APP Gallery exceed 600 million active users. There are many more compared to the 100 million estimated for Amazon Store, and that between 10 and 20 million that are estimated at minority stores such as Aurora Store.
Not everything is numbers. Although at the level of numbers nobody can cough Play Store, there is much beyond the total number of unique users. Technological giants such as Epic Games have led Android Your application store With a single purpose: avoid Play Store commissions.
On the Huawei side, it is not focused on competing globally against Play Store: it wants to be the main app store in China and consolidate the leadership of the company in your native country.
Compete against Play Store goes beyond figures, and with The arrival of third -party apps to App Store They have the great opportunity to continue getting with increasing impulse.
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