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hey guys it's Brandon venomoth from pocket now calm if you use an Android phone you're probably very familiar with the Android Market so the place should go for the hundred thousand plus applications all within one roof has a really nice interface but Amazon thinks that they can do one better and today they've launched the Amazon Appstore in this video we're going to talk about it let's get to it so you might be wondering why did Amazon launch an app store well we have three explanations that could be possible here number one they want a piece of the pie the app store industry is very profitable and amazon wants to get in on it number two amazon wants to integrate apps purchases with amazon.com they want to use their recommendation engine they want to feature apps on their homepage they have a lot of people going to amazon.com every day and they want to leverage apps and get people to buy apps when they buy a phone or they buy cell phone accessories and things like that and number three amazon.com probably already has your credit card information so that removes one barrier to entry you login with your username and password that you've been using to buy your amazon stuff and boom you're in so the first time you launch the amazon app store and again we'll put a video or we'll put a link up on the video so that you can download this you're asked to log in and we've already done that here and this is what it looks like it works in landscape if you wanted to but we're actually going to just show it in portrait and there's a spot right at the top for one feature that which is Angry Birds Rio this is one of the very few exclusives to the Amazon App Store it's a really cool game I've already downloaded it and played it a little bit and what we get here are some categories you can swipe through with your finger or you've got top paid and top free apps right here in this listing so let's see when we get to an app and we want to actually buy it or download it let's find something here we will go to Wolfram Alpha okay so we'll tap on that and here is the screen where you come after you've tapped on the app and we've got screenshots here we can flick through you can tap on a screenshot and get a full-screen view of of it we get up product description these pages look just like the amazon.com mobile app in fact I'm sure they use the same engine in fact if you scroll down you can see reviews let's go to another one that actually has some reviews we will go to say it's a fine one that has some reviews brand new store there really aren't is it there isn't much activity going on here so if we go to this application for example there's one review and you can tap on the reviews and see what people are saying about it or from here you can just click buy app I'm not going to buy that app that doesn't look too fun let's find something that does look fun I've heard good things about asphalt HD really cool game they've removed one barrier to buying an application here it's one touch and you buy it watch this boom and it goes to the download screen it doesn't have that extra screen that asks for the permissions okay so it's downloading this is the my apps section from here you can go to the all section and see all the applications that you've already downloaded through the Amazon App Store and if you go over here you can see all of the updates let's see what happens after the download completes this is a larger download so we're gonna cut back in in a minute okay and it's done and it takes you to the install screen and within a minute or two you've gone from downloading the app to installing the app it's a very quick process so I'm gonna click done here so the Amazon App Store it looks pretty nice again we're not exactly sure why someone would use this over the Android Marketplace because this says far fewer apps only about four thousand at lunch something else forgot to mention we can drill down into particular categories if you want and further categories are shown at the top so we can go to the business category see the apps and go from there so really what we'll be looking at for it are exclusive titles to the Amazon App Store that's really the only reason we have to visit it the interface isn't revolutionary there's nothing about it that is much more compelling than the Android app store that you get on every Android device so download it and let us know what you think about it we're going to put a link up on the video now so that you can go to the mini URL and download it right to your Android phone it's free to download the app you should definitely try it out and let us know what you think about it if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now