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Google removes Amazon app from Play Store over violation
New Delhi: Google has removed the official Amazon
app from the Google Play store after Amazon let slip that the app
features its own "hidden" app store. This is now allowed because of
Google’s guidelines.
When Amazon updated its primary Android app
with an "Apps & Games" section, it allowed access to Amazon's
library of applications without sidestepping Google Play. The hidden app
allowed people to download apps and games as well - something that
Google Play Store is meant for itself. This led to Amazon's app store
mysteriously disappearing from Google Play this week.
“We launched
a new Amazon App for Android Phones on September 9 that provides an
award-winning mobile shopping experience, enables customers to discover
and purchase all of Amazon's digital catalog, and provides customers
access to the Prime Instant Video player and unlimited streaming of over
40,000 movies and TV episodes. Google subsequently changed their
Developer Distribution Agreement on September 25. As a result, we
removed the app from Google Play and published the Amazon Shopping app,"
Amazon said in a statement.
Previous versions of the distribution
rules only banned apps whose "primary purpose" was app distribution.
However, Amazon argued that its app had a different primary purpose than
to offer apps, and so, it succeeded with planting a competing app store
in the Play Store.
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