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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by mcantelon on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @11:29AM (#2837461)
>Amazon gets to set the price of your app to whatever they want, without any input from you, or even the chance to reject their price ... Amazon re-writes your description, and in ours they even made up things ... you can’t remove apps from their store

That doesn't seem great.

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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by shaggyfrog on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @11:56AM (#2837578)
Re-writing descriptions is such a bizarre thing to do I don't know why Amazon would choose to do it. Clearly they are getting things wrong in the descriptions, which is misleading to customers, which must be illegal in some fashion.

Holding apps hostage -- not being able to choose unilaterally to remove them -- is beyond the pale.

Whose app is it anyway?

Does Amazon think they own these things the second they get uploaded?

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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by phreakhead on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:57PM (#2839525)
They rewrote the description of my app, also with mistakes. Very annoying, especially since if you try to change it it takes at least two weeks to show up! In the span of app sales that is a lifetime!
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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by robtoo on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @11:43AM (#2837521)
To be honest, this is true of every product that Amazon sells.
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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by irons on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @11:46AM (#2837533)
But it's not true of any other app store with which Amazon competes. Whether or not it's true of Walmart isn't really relevant.
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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by autarch on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @11:47AM (#2837535)
No it's not. Amazon does a lot of selling for third parties who set their own prices.
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Re:Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core by neuroelectronic on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @07:42PM (#2839150)
Yes, but they still pay you as if they charged full price. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The description thing is just odd though.
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