The Amazon Appstore for Android will be killed off on August 20, the company has officially announced today. Starting on that day, you will no longer have access to it on your Android device. It’s unclear what exactly will happen – will the app simply stop working or will it throw a notice that the app store is discontinued? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Amazon is also killing the Amazon Coins program on the same day, so if you have any, you’ll need to use them by August 20. As of today Amazon Coins are no longer available for purchase. No, we don’t know what those are either. But they’re no longer available, so it doesn’t really matter anymore.
If you have some Coins still in your account come August 20, Amazon says it will refund them, but additional details on how that’s going to work will be “shared at a later date”.
The Amazon Appstore never really took off as a proper competitor to the Google Play Store, and now it seems like Amazon has finally decided to give up on it and use its resources for other things.
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