There needs to be some recourse here. Amazon isn't going bankrupt and closing business. They need to honor their customer commitments.

After all, earn trust and customer obsession are two of their leadership principles

Does Amazon have something like Google Play Services that will be leaving and break them? Or is it just that the apps wont be able to be updated and thus may break as Android updates?

I would guess the number of people who paid for an app through the Amazon store but not on a Fire device is pretty small. And do you ever really own an app? I have so few that I paid a one time payment for.

As an app developer, I'm looking forward to having to answer all the emails asking for me to transfer their purchases to Google Play.

> If there are no options for a refund, then this is another reason not to purchase items that you never truly own.

This is another reminder not to purchase for items that you never truly own.

Move fast and break (your) things.

Not that it's okay, but App Store/Play Store do the same. They don't refund for apps that have become unavailable.

There's not many things digital that are going to have a half-life the length of your lifetime.

Yeah, don't have high expectations for things you pay for but don't own. It's a sad truth, but I've accepted it (I also bought some dvds in 2024 which is something I never thought I'd do again).

Sucks when you spend money on things and then they are taken away from you, isn't it.

Computer games have a similar problem. There is an EU petition specifically for computer games to stop such practice:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

We need a petition like this for all software.

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