Amazon Appstore Still Broken On Android 12 a Month After OS Release (amazonforum.com) 29
An anonymous reader writes: People running Android phones may want to hold off upgrading to Android 12 if they also use apps purchased through the Amazon Appstore. The Appstore app itself is not compatible with Android 12, which prevents many, if not all, apps purchased and downloaded via Amazon from running. The Android OS update began to be rolled out to Pixel phones over a month ago, and more recently, newer Samsung Galaxy handsets, such as the S21. Amazon has acknowledged the problem in a 90-post support forum thread, as well as in the Appstore app itself, but has not provided a timeline for a fix to restore users' apps.
Awesome (Score:2)
Boy I sure do want to bring this level of reliability and security to iOS, especially looking forward to explaining to my mom why some apps she want to use aren't working for over a month!
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You can always teach your mom to only trust the original vendor (Amazon if it's a Kindle, say Google if it's an Android phone, or Apple if it's an Apple phone). It makes sense and the car analogy applies.
Also, if Amazon screws up, they hit the headlines, they lose customers, and we learn which places of business are better or worse. You know, like everywhere else where you can buy stuff.
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When I "bought" a free app from the Amazon app store for my Android phone, I kept getting push notifications from the Android App about all sorts of "deals". I uninstalled the Amazon store from my phone and the apps stopped working. So I ripped those out too. Same with the Mac version of their App store.
I only interact with Amazon via the web. They can take their browser extensions and shove them. I buy books for the Kindle if I can't get them anywhere else without DRM.
The fact that Amazon is late with t
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Wouldn't it be wild if you had to have a notification active (or hidden by the user) to run a process in the background reliably? Or if an app spawned more than 5-10 child processes (max of 32 children across all applications, systemwide), it and its children were extremely likely to get killed off when backgrounded?
That's the state of android 12, and with that in mind I can easily see how a complex application like Amazon store might get completely wrecked.
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That sounds similar to what iPhone has had for years. Apple doesn't like background apps at all.
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It's similar to what Android has had for years too. Every release gets a little stricter.
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Android is secure by default. This issue requires your mom to install the Amazon Store, grant it permissions to install apps, go back there and purchase apps, then (that's the trick) upgrade to Android 12. That's not your example where the basic user mom suddenly gets an unusable phone, that's a power user.
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Lets be honest, unless you buy her a phone directly from Amazon, there is almost zero chance your mum is going to installed the Amazon App Store (or any other app store, or sideload any apps). And if your concern is apps that stop working after they've been installed, then it's just as likely to happen on iOS as Android.
Re: Awesome (Score:2)
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So, have you heard about Fortnite yet?
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Boy I sure do want to bring this level of reliability and security to iOS, especially looking forward to explaining to my mom why some apps she want to use aren't working for over a month!
Couldn't she just use Apple's App Store? As I understand it if you go the path of unofficial installations on Android it shows you a big warning that this isn't safe, why would you ignore the warning? Also Safari has a "fraudulent website warning" for instance are you worried your mother doesn't read that?
There are legitimate arguments for alternative app stores, for GPL-licensed software for instance, and in the end Apple can do what they want unless the courts dictate otherwise. But let's not be stupid ab
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Same place as any other version of Android
https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/... [amazon.com]
You initially have to lower security and side load it. Once side loaded you can raise security settings again.
Have no fear (Score:2)
Another day, another story where developers who believe they are masters of their domain get things completely wrong, but will never accept responsibility.
*This goes back to this story [slashdot.org] where the core team of developers for Rust believe they are like gods, answerable to no one, and don't have to suffer the indignity of listening or taking advice from non-technical people.
You know what they say (Score:3)
Android ain't done until Amazon won't run!
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Owning a Fire tablet, I'd say it's the other way around. It was fairly trivial for me to get Google Play store running on my Fire, though there are some curious thinks blocked or broken; such as being to able to cast to my Chromecast, which clearly seems to be blocked on the Fire's at the OS level, since pretty much e very Google Play app I download runs. So far as I can tell on my Pixel phone, I have no issues with any Amazon apps. In this case, I think it's likely Amazon simply hasn't updated their app st
Re: You know what they say (Score:2)
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FireOS really is fairly crappy on the whole, and like a lot of locked down devices, the choices you are offered are crappy, and getting around them often means disabling security controls. Heck, getting the GBoard keyboard installed required disabling a FireOS setting to allow third party keyboards. I know there are ways I could get rid of the crappy UI, but frankly I just use the thing for reading and watching videos, so beyond sideloading Google Play to get access to my Android apps and putting a decent t
Re: You know what they say (Score:2)
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Cool soundbyte, but the reality is more like the incompetence of Amazon than any nefarious action by Google. After all other app stores don't have a problem.
Re: We've all been cyber-crippled. (Score:2)
"tlook account. To help protect you, we've temporarily blocked it."
When they say they are "protecting you", they really mean protecting THEMSELVES.
This kind of doublethink has become all to common in our society, and is a reminder that "they" are doing everything they can to infantilize you and gain control over your life.
This is also known as slavery.
This is definitely a feature (Score:1)