How and why to download an application from Amazon App store?
By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2011-05-24 07:25:56 | Word Count: 504
Following are the steps to download the application from the Amazon App store.
There are representatives of the App store. These representatives are based on the browsers. It is through these representatives that you have to submit your phone number or email address to the Amazon. This is the first step towards getting the Amazon App store on your smart phone. The representatives are associated with carriers that charge some fees because it is through them that you will be downloading the data.
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After the successful completion of the first step, you will receive a message through text or email. This message will have a URL from where you can directly download the store into the Android device. For this you have to click on Settings mentioned in the device, click Applications, check the box that is beside "Unknown Sources" and finally the Amazon App store can be installed.
After the downloading and installation of the Amazon App store on your device, you can open the App store the way you open other applications. You can now have accesses to the collection of applications at the Amazon App store.
You have to first sign up or register yourself for having an Amazon account. The user has to use this Amazon account for purchasing and downloading the applications from the App store. The next step is selecting and approving the application that you want to be downloaded on to your device. Once you have approve the application, the application will be automatically downloaded to your smart phone device but to install it in your device you need to check the "Unknown Sources" option.
Reasons for using the Amazon App store:
Some of the prominent reasons for downloading the applications from Amazon App store are as follows.
• Unlike Google's Android Market, Amazon does not make the approval of the software and hardware on the smart phone device mandatory. This shifts the balance towards the Amazon's App store.
• The exclusive release of applications on the App store makes lot of difference. The case of Angry Birds RIO application, a part of Angry Birds series by Rovio, being exclusively released on App store has proved that the strategy of Amazon is efficient at attracting the application buyers before other application sellers.
• Amazon is a trustworthy name. It has got a very good goodwill especially with reference to sale of products of varied dimensions and sizes over the internet. There are already many people having an account with Amazon.
• When it comes to testing the application the Amazon's App store has an edge above the Android market because Amazon EC2 system allows the user to test the application without any obligation, whereas in case of Android Market the application can be tested only after buying it.
• The App store offers a free application a day too.
