Of corse the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to roll over, grab my phone, and fight cats. (Blackberry, stop chewing on my phone cable. Mac, I love you too, but please stop licking my face. You been eating out of the litter box again.)
But between bouts of affection and my dreaming of maybe getting up, I noticed that Amazon had an update. Ok cool. Except, you know the part where you get transfered to the Play Store and it asks you if you accept new permissions? Yea, that didn't happen. Instead, it jumped straight to Amazon updating directly on my phone. WTF? I don't think so.
Force quit + Uninstall....Ok I can't Uninstall because of some deal Samsung or T-Mobile has with Amazon. So....Disable? Yes, and remove the crapware. Also, I think I'm going to go to the Play Store and give them a piece of my mind.
But I didn't see Amazon. Just Amazon Prime, Amazon Marketplace, and similar apps. Weird, not main Amazon app.
Then I got curious. I wonder if anyone else had something like this happen to them. So I searched. And I found out about the Apple/Google vs Amazon war. First link was the most facinating answer I found all morning.
According to Android Police, Google has removed the Amazon app because it did not follow rules for apps. An update in September to include an app store, caused Google to change the rules of engagement (Non-compete agreement) not two weeks later "to clarify the rule". Thus they (and HumbeBundle evedently) have been banished from the marketplace.
So if want their default app, you will have to go through Amazon directly to get their apk. (Or you can purchase a Samsung Galaxy S5 from T-Mobile.)
