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Amazon App Store Rocks

In case you haven't heard they give out a free paid app every day! Yesterday was Picsay Pro and today is Wolfram Alpha! Both great apps! I high suggest installing the app store and checking every day I'm not really sure what happens when the app get's updated by the developer though.

I uninstalled it because I was offended that it was notifying me about updates even though I hadn't run the app since a reboot...
I hate that presumption that my cpu and bandwidth is free for the taking, or that I even care that an app that I haven't run for a few days has been updated...
Also, I had installed a free app from amazon app store, and it wouldn't run after I uninstalled amazon app store (reasonable I suppose).
Otherwise, I buy a lot of stuff from amazon - I'm a loyal customer of theirs...
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I think the Amazon Appstore is a great alternative to the Android Market, but I'm glad we have both.
The Appstore is much more like Apple's App Store (and not just in name only). Amazon reviews and tests all applications, and if they don't work as advertised, are buggy, or have security issues, they get denied. One one hand, it's nice to know you can trust your app downloads, especially when there have been some rather notable security problems with Market apps.
On the other hand, there's nothing stopping Amazon from denying legitimate apps like Apple has a habit of doing. That said, I haven't seen any evidence they're doing that, and generally speaking I think Amazon is a rather trustworthy company (see the platform-agnostic Kindle software and their willingness to go toe-to-toe with record labels to give us Cloud access to our own music).
Oh, and ironically, the Appstore's search engine is about a bajillion times better than the Market's. I'll never understand why Google's Android Market search engine is so awful.
Of course, the free apps -- which are just discounted to $0 from the full price for a day, so they're handled exactly the same as a real purchase as far as updates go -- are just the cherry on top. But what a cherry. At first, I was worried they would just go the easy route and give out ****e apps. But that definitely hasn't been the case (with the exception of some "meh" games). In the slightly over two weeks the Appstore's been available, I've nabbed legitimately top-shelf apps like Shazam Encore, SoundHound Infinity, SwiftKey Keyboard, PicSay Pro, Wolfram Alpha, Weatherbug Elite, and a whole bunch of games, many of which are pretty darn good, like Fruit Ninja and Backbreaker Football. That's a lot of money saved (like $30 for apps I've listed here alone).

Amazon App store is GREAT
We need a second option from Google

I like how there aren't problems downloading apps and apps will correctly queue for download. With the Android market on 2.2 it will sit there and try to download multiple apps only to either error out on the download or do a continuous installing thing that you have to cancel anyway.

Darn I missed picsay!! How did that happen!!
One bad thing about Amazon...yesterday I went to play Angry Birds Rio, and it gave me an error saying that it didn't have a network connection to verify my purchase.
So if you are in Airplane mode, or don't have a connection, it sounds like the apps from Amazon won't run. Not an issue most of the time, but annoying nonetheless.

My morning ritual now involves checking the Amazon App Store.

does anyone know if you can transfer apps already purchased onto the same phone if we flash a new rom? i'm assuming you can, but the data saves might disappear

Apps can be installed on unlimited (I'm not sure about that, but I've got it going on 2) phones. Data might be transferable through Titanium but I've not actually tried.

ah cool. hopefully TiBU data restoring won't cause force closes because i know it sometimes does

How much have you spent on Apps?

Weather Widget - Donate ($1.59)
LauncherPro Plus ($2.99)
SmugFolio for Smugmug ($2.99)
Splashtop Remote Desktop HD ($9.99)
Stand O' Food ($3.04)

Apps bought since getting Xoom (in chronological order no less):
Circle Launcher - $1
Circle Launcher icon pack - $0.99
Fpse - $5.20
XDA Premium - $0.99
Thumb Keyboard - $2.53
Copilot USA - $4.99 (was for a holiday to Florida and totally worth it)
History Great Battles Medieval - $6.99 (and $1.40 tax...?!?)
SetCPU - $1.99
Must Eat Birds - $0.99
Galaxy on Fire 2 - $18
Wyse PocketCloud Pro - $8.99
Volume+ - $1.62
Diceplayer - $3.95
Mizuu Movies - $0.99
VCE Mobile - $10
Yes... I keep all my receipts. Lol
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I have a lot of paid apps from when my Droid was the Android love of my life ($50+ easily). I always did like apps that made my Droid as much of a mini computer as possible, so now those same types of apps I bought back then are even better for getting the most out of my Xoom. They include PhoneMyPC, PrinterShare, DroidScannerPro, & DocumentsToGo.
Since I got my Xoom I've purchased some games, but also AndCAD, which is a fantastic basic AutoCAD-like app that allows me to work on fairly complex part design on the go. It's 25 bucks, the most I've ever spent on an app, but it helped land a $2800 job within one week of buying it.
Good apps are what make Android really outshine other mobile OSes by showing off it's versatility.

I have spent over $50, though I am not sure how much in total. I have had an Android phone since the developer G1 so I have accumulated a lot of cruft.
ADWLauncher EX
Documents To Go
Newsrob
Copilot Live (the initial, more expensive, release)
Copilot Premium (the cheaper, updated app)
A couple of different RDC apps (Pocket Cloud, Xtralogic, and one other that I no longer use)
iDisplay (big let down, but not worth the effort of a refund)
Rom Manager Premium
A dozen or so random games/utilities not worth listing individually (such as sodoku premium, robo defense, SU File Manager, greed, etc...)
Side note, is there any way to permanently remove a paid application from your list? There are a couple I know I will never use again such as greed and scan2pdf. I would just as soon remove those (and some other free apps) from my apps list so it is not so cumbersome to look through.

Too long to even list lol. Been buying apps since the Google g1 phone lol
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easy $50+ considering i switched from iphone when my contract came close... at first i bought a few apps that were good and useful to me on my iphone but as not all were ported to android it led me to find other apps and franky some awesome ones at that.. TrackChecker is one as i buy alot from online i can track anything anywhere right on me phone, tab and till it gets to my door
the rest it seems have been listed by other members

I tallied up my apps and I've spent at least $150 on apps in just under 2 years (since the original Motorola Droid). That's less than $10/month, which seems kinda low. I feel the need to go buy a bunch of paid apps now...
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Not sure. Between $75-$100, I'd guess since I got my Xoom.
Of course, I've been using Android since the day the G1 was released, so I'm sure the grand total is somewhere between $100-$150. It would probably be higher if Google had allowed devs to sell from day one... something that still bums me out. I had built some really popular apps back in the day, and if I could have charged even $.99....

Favorite Paid WP Apps

I recently jumped ship to Windows Phone from android and was able to participate in the Nokia World of Apps promotion for a free $20 app voucher and am trying to figure out what to spend it on.
I plan on getting Rayman Jungle Run, and maybe Civilization Revolution, but otherwise I'm not really seeing anything I want to buy.
What are your recommendations?

to get discounts check Store Deals, AppDeals and myAppFree... some popular games also sometimes go for free, only you need to wait, for example Angry Birds collection was 2 times free, now is most of Disney collection free)...
also check App Social from Nokia to get recommendations for popular apps... if you cant find it in store, install SysApp Pusher
also here few interesting pay apps with trial to check if you interested:
OneShot - good camera app
MoliPlayer Pro - video player with subtitle support...

Amazon's giving away many apps (7/31-8/1)

I just spotted this tonight on Twitter, hope it help you guys (and girls)
Here's Amazon's current promo (7/31-8/1)
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Amazon Appstore
Get OVER $100 in Essential Apps FREE Thursday and Friday only
amzn.to/1zwOuwN

Per Twitter: Less than 15 hours to stock up on over 130 apps and games for free get them while you can! Amzn.to/1vm7VYX

Amazon doesn't seem to be keeping up with developers on Play Store, versions outdated on many apps.

I didn't like how you have to keep the amazon app store installed to use the apps! more junk slowing up my phone!!!

Crossy Road - Thanks Amazon

Get Crossy Road from the Amazon Appstore. Check it out - http://amzn.to/1uE5WL4
Just wanted to share this with you guys because my sister has it on her iPad and I really like this game and I was getting really mad it wasn't available for Android.
Well turns out it is.... And for some reason it's not in the Play Store.
So for you guys who already like this game go ahead and download it from the Amazon app store - which is a great app to have on your phone, they give one free app a day and have tons of cool deals - for those who don't know the game go ahead and try it, it's really fun and doesn't have in-app purchases, which now a days is really rare.
Anyway thanks Amazon for having a great app store, and making it available for all of us not just the Kindle devices.
Sort for the long post..... I got caught up xD .