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Originally Posted by Blossom
It's will work as long as you are logged into the app store on your device. No net needed.  If you log out and the app you downloaded has DRM it will give you pop up telling you to log in. |
The version of the Amazon App Store I had on my Samsung Epic refused to stop connecting to the internet in the background unless I logged off, and even then, it restarted and ran in the background continuously. Which meant I had to uninstall it to stop running down my battery, which meant that none of the apps I downloaded through it actually worked.
The same proved true for my co-worker's device, which I believe was a Galaxy tablet.
I'm sure the store is integrated nicely with the KF, and it's possible that later versions of the Amazon App Market for smartphones might have addressed the worst aspects of their login issue. Still, you couldn't pay me to revisit that level of enforced passivity.
Amazon's mp3 downloader is far more flexible, which actually makes it useful. All that Amazon has to do musically at this point is to offer higher-resolution FLAC files at an increase in price. Apple has done this already with ALAC, and several online music stores in the UK and Europe have done this with FLAC all along.