AT&T & Amazon to Work Together to Bring App Store to Customers
If any of you AT&T customers were worried that the carrier won’t take kindly to the Amazon App Store, guess again. Ma Bell has gone as far as creating an entirely new site just for those who want access to the newly-launched alternate market on their Android devices.
Amazon’s App Store was launched this week, but much to the dismay of every smartphone owner on AT&T who doesn’t own an iPhone, they couldn’t use it. The inability to install third-party .APK files wasn’t a surprise as AT&T has employed that strategy since they’ve adopted the operating system.
But even those who know how to work around that limitation couldn’t use it – those users were simply told they couldn’t use the application. AT&T was quick to put this site up which could mean a couple of different things. On one hand, AT&T and Amazon might be working on a partnership to preload this app market on all their future devices. (And maybe even current ones through software upgrades.)
AT&T is working on allowing purchases and downloads from the Amazon Appstore for Android in the near future. Please select your AT&T Android smartphone from the list below and provide your email address so we can notify you after we have finalized our plans to bring the Amazon Appstore for Android to AT&T customers.
On the other hand, the user response may have been big enough for AT&T to take notice and take action. I’m going to go with the former, but no one really knows right now.
Amazon started offering a new free game or app every 24 hours since the store’s conception this past Tuesday. The first game was the highly-anticipated Angry Birds Rio that was launched exclusively for the retailer’s digital storefront. As of the time of this posting, the free game being offered is Doodle Jump, a game which normally costs $.99.
Head over to AT&T’s site specifically for this matter – called appstoreaccess.com – and sign up to be notified of further developments. We don’t want you folks missing out on what looks to be a great stream of deals to come from Amazon. [via Androinica]