So you heard the news about the Amazon AppStore for Android launching this morning and grabbed your free copy of Angry Birds Rio? Awesome, unfortunately there’s a catch we didn’t foresee. Reports have come flooding in suggesting uninstalling the Amazon Appstore renders Angry Birds Rio unplayable. It looks like Amazon knows how to stay around for the long haul.
With a smidgen under 4,000 apps available, the launch of Amazon’s Appstore was a bittersweet. On one hand, it opens the door to a fresh revenue stream for Amazon, but at the same time it creates a new level of Android fragmentation. Furthermore, depending on your carrier you might not even be able to access the store. Now onto the more pressing matter, Angry Birds Rio.
If you’re like me and installed Angry Birds Rio this morning the day started off on a bright note. However, if you later removed the Amazon Appstore and tried playing Angry Birds Rio you saw the following message:
It looks like the Amazon Appstore was uninstalled from your device. Please install the Amazon Appstore and sign in with your username and password to use this app.
As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. If you want to take advantage of the free apps being offered by the Amazon AppStore, you’ll need to keep it installed. At least until a clever soul over at xda-developers comes up with a fix.
[via Droid-life]
