If you're an Android user, Amazon has a deal going on right now, offering a few paid apps for free for the next 48 hours. One of those apps is Travel Interpreter: http://www.amazon.com/Jourist-Verla...?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1403881105&sr=1-24 The app is normally a 10 dollar purchase. It's mostly tourist phrasebook-type stuff, but audio is included in all languages - 32, each individually downloadable. I snagged it the last time they offered it for free. While I don't use it all that often, the audio has been useful to me. R. ==
I've been put off Amazon's free promos since I read a blog post by an app developer accusing Amazon of "bait and switch". The Amazon developer agreement says that promo apps will get x% of the normal retail price, unless otherwise agreed. And then as soon as they offer to make your app a featured special offer, they say you're getting nothing, and doing it for the exposure. I could download what I want for free now... but then the developer never gets anything. My reaction is to refuse to buy any of my Android apps through Amazon's store. It's a pretty nasty trick to pull, if you ask me.
Sounds illegal. Both parties sign an agreement, one party fulfills their side, then the other side changes the agreement? Or is there more to it?
I remember reading about it, a couple years ago maybe? It got quite a bit of negative press. Here's one negative blog about it (maybe it's the same one Cainntear's referring to): http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/ For what it's worth, and although there are a lot of things I really don't like about Amazon, their app store is useful to me, because I happen to have a tablet that doesn't have Google Play on it and there's no way to install it. It's unfortunate that stuff like this happens. I don't think Amazon is alone in this, though, although other companies might not be as high profile about it. R. ==
There's no such thing as a contract that can't be renegotiated. The "featured" listing isn't guaranteed, so it's not a binding part of the contract.
True, but both parties have to agree to it, at least in the US. You left that detail out. I checked out the link posted by hrhenry. Yes, Amazon is being very slimey, and imo mostly at fault here. But programmers decide whether or not to agree to these terms. This is like a Ghana scam in my mind, with some important differences.
