After 14 years of trying to compete with Google Play, Amazon is pulling the plug on its Android Appstore. The tech giant announced that starting August 20, 2025, the alternative app marketplace will ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What could have been one of the biggest alternative app stores is finally shutting down on Android. Amazon originally shared plans to kill off ...

Do not miss this deadline. You have been warned. Amazon has confirmed that “starting August 20, 2025, you will no longer have access to the Amazon Appstore on your ...

Amazon is shutting down its Appstore on Android tomorrow, August 20, 2025. Today is the day to make any changes to your subscriptions via the Amazon Appstore. You can spend your remaining Amazon Coin ...

Amazon will shutter its Appstore for the Android operating system, as well as its Coins program this week to funnel services through Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices. Advertisers targeting Android ...

FILE - The logo for Amazon.com Inc. is displayed on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, July 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (Richard Drew, AP) SAN ANTONIO – Amazon announced it would be ...

Amazon is about to end Kindle content download support in old versions of its Android app. The move would close a loophole used to retrieve files vulnerable to DRM removal. This follows Amazon ending ...

To ensure that its new Vega-based Fire TV dongle launches with all the necessary apps and services, Amazon will simply stream Android apps from the cloud. To ensure that its new Vega-based Fire TV ...

Rumor mill: Analysts say Amazon could close long-standing gaps with higher-end competing tablets by using Android and thus delivering broader app support and better hardware, potentially reshaping its ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company's homegrown operating system.

Amazon uses an Android-based operating system called Fire OS for its Amazon Fire line of tablets and Fire TV line of smart TVs. But a few years ago we learned that the company was looking to move away ...