Amazon Abandonment Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it Fire tablets and Fire TV devices will still have access to apps, though.

Amazon will shut down its Android device app store in August 2025. Users will no longer be able to download or use apps from the Appstore on Android after the deadline. Amazon Fire devices like ...

Amazon's announcement of the store's closure is unlikely a coincidence. Official Android app support on Windows 11 made even less sense than on mobile.

Amazon first launched the Appstore in March, 2011 as an app that could be installed on Android phones and tablets. The first Amazon Fire-branded tablet didn’t launch until half a year later.

That means Google may not have to open up its Play Store for years, if at all, while it appeals the verdict. In December, a jury unanimously decided that Google’s Android app store, the Play ...