Happy Birthday to Amazon Appstore

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The Amazon Appstore for Android turns 1-yo today (22 Mar). A year ago, Amazon ushered in its appstore by giving away the paid version of Angry Birds Rio. Since then, they've given away one paid app (sometimes two) every day.

I've downloaded all of them, except the one offered on 21 Oct 2011 (QuikPlan). Somehow I missed it. The vast majority of these apps reside in the cloud and only a few have made it to my devices. You never know when one may come in handy.

Helpful Links:

Today's Free App of the Day

Amazon Appstore for Android Celebrates First Birthday (15 Mar 2012)

Introducing Amazon Appstore for Android (22 Mar 2011)

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Some interesting facts:

• Amazon Appstore has grown its selection nearly eight-fold since launch, from 4,000 apps to over 31,000.
• In its first year, the most downloaded paid app in the Amazon Appstore was Cut the Rope, followed by Angry Birds (Ad-Free) and Where’s My Water?; the most downloaded free app was Angry Birds Free, followed by Netflix and Solitaire by MobilityWare.
• Amazon Appstore offers a paid app for free every day. If a customer had downloaded every Free App of the Day since launch, they would have saved nearly $1,000.
• The paid app with the most 5-star reviews in the first year of the Amazon Appstore was Where’s My Water?, with over 3,000; the free app with the most 5-star reviews was Blood & Glory, with over 4,000.
• In the Amazon Appstore’s first year, customers spent more than 7,700,000 minutes test driving apps; Bubble Buster was the most test-driven app, followed by Amazon MP3 for Android with Cloud Player and Memory Trainer.
• Over the past year, the most popular app category for customers is games, followed by entertainment and productivity. Some of the most popular apps include Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, QuickOffice Pro, CalenGoo and Exchange by TouchDown.

I only missed one app, so Amazon has given me nearly $1,000 worth of apps