Angry Birds Game is the Main Attraction of Amazon’s Appstore Grand Opening

The grand opening of Amazon’s Appstore has arrived, with none other than the Angry Birds Game as its main attraction!
Amazon will be offering the all new Angry Birds Rio version for free! You heard right free, but you need to act fast because it will only be free during the opening day of March 21st! Not to worry too much though, the regular price for Angry Birds Rio is only $0.99 thanks to their ever generous developers Rovio; though I am sure that many of the hard core of fans of this amazingly popular game will be acting fast on this promotion.
Amazon’s Appstore can be accessed either straight from your Android phone or through web by visiting amazon.com/appstore. The Appstore is an app just like the Android Market is so you will have to download and install it to your phone if you want the ease of use of the app, but again you can always just access it through the web at the address mentioned above. The Amazon Appstore launched with over 3,800 apps, which is certainly no slouch, but of course still pales in comparison to the 200,000 some apps available in the Android Market. So Amazon certainly has their work cut out for themselves if they want to compete in this market.
More over though, Amazon is offering a really cool feature through their web based Appstore. It’s their Test Drive feature, makes use of the “cloud” (which is the future of all programs, apps, and gaming by the way) to allow a buyer to test run any app through their browser for half an hour without having to install it on their device before deciding if they really want to purchase it or not. Another great promotion method Amazon is intending is they will offer a single app for free every day to help get their new Appstore rolling.
Amazon also announced that they will be undercutting Google Android Market prices for many apps. So be sure to check both fronts when app shopping. A question some have been asking is, why are these special Amazon promotions not being offered for Apple’s App Store apps. Perhaps the answer is because of Android’s Market openness versus Apple’s closed App Store model.
So, is Amazon’s presence in the app store industry good or bad for Android? Though some may argue that having multiple sources to download and purchase the same apps can make the experience a bit more convoluted for the users and cause fragmentation in the Android community, I believe that competition is healthy not only for the industry but for the competitors as well. Google sees this, and I believe is why they have aloud this to happen. Apple on the other hand, with their closed framework I think will eventually have a hard time keeping up in the future in an open source environment, which in turn will benefit Google; that’s just my thinking anyway.
And of course check back here at Angry Birds game online soon for complete Angry Birds Rio Walkthrough!