March 15, 2012

Amazon AppStore First Birthday, Discounted Various Popular Applications

Amazon has just announced that Amazon AppStore has one year old. To commemorate its first anniversary, Amazon provide discounts on a variety of best-selling applications which provided in the application store.


Some popular applications are discounted:
  • Fruit Ninja
  • Wolfram Alpha
  • Splashtop Remote Desktop
  • Dr. Seuss s The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
  • TuneIn Radio Pro
  • TETRIS
  • PAC-MAN
  • The Lost City
  • MONOPOLY
  • AccuWeather Platinum
  • Jamie Oliver s 20 Minute Meals

Discounts which applied is also different from usual. On the first day, Plants vs. Zombies application is discounted 67%, become U.S. $ 0.99. Tomorrow, there will be two applications which discounted. On the third day, there will be three applications that are discounted, and so on.

In addition set a discount, Amazon also released some interesting details related to the growth of the AppStore. In the early years of establishment, there are 4000 applications and a lawsuit from Apple. While today, the store is already crowded and has applications more than 31,000.

Few other things also revealed Amazon, including:

Most downloaded application is Cut the Rope, followed by Angry Birds and Where's My Water?
Every day, AppStore provide free one paid application.
Amazon AppStore allows users to test applications that will be purchased.
Games are the most popular application categories, followed by entertainment and productivity.

Amazon also preparing eight Amazon Kindle Fire tablets to share. The tablet will be given to those who are lucky in the lottery that ended on March 31st.

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