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Angry Birds Rio now available: 99 cents on iPhone, free on Amazon Android Appstore for 24 hours
The game features the same slingshot action as previous Angry Birds titles, including all your favorite furious feathered friends. You get 60 levels to start you off, with Rovio promising 'Episodic updates throughout 2011.' Rio also comes packing a set of new achievements, 'special hidden fruits,' and a 'spectacular boss fight.'
While the game costs 99 cents on the iTunes App Store, the Amazon Appstore exclusive on the Android platform is free for 24-hours as part of Amazon's free app of the day promotion. So if you're an Android wielder, get over to the Amazon Appstore for Android (only available in the US) and download Angry Birds Rio now.
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Subscribe to commentsR_JMeltingMar 22nd 2011 3:09PM
Iit won't let you download free content without a 1-Click account set up through Amazon. Which entails credit card info and your home address. This is an annoyance to me and I will stick with AppBrain and the Android Market.
rkneo11Mar 22nd 2011 4:24PM
booo... Not available in India
AnthonyMar 22nd 2011 4:39PM
Why can't Amazon tell you "amazon appstore is not yet available for your region" before you download the app and setup your 1-click settings?
David ChanMar 22nd 2011 9:26PM
How do I sign up?
JadeMar 22nd 2011 9:30PM
What a joke. I contacted the Australian regulators this morning, and she suggested I put in an official complaint as I have a case. Amazon can't gather all that information from you then tell you people in your country can't access it. They need to tell you upfront. I mentioned I lived in Australia a long time before the app informed me. Why couldn't a message inform you on their website as soon as you enter your address? Why let you download the app, why tell you to enter your credit card details first? I know other people who have used Amazon for years and had stuff delivered here. They already had their address & credit card details and it still let them download the app. The person I spoke to also told me that app developers could also be culpable if they didn't list "US residents only" in their advertising and were aware Amazon gathered all this information on their customers before informing they can't use it.
WilliamMar 24th 2011 1:54AM
No offense Jade, but you seriously shouldn't take things so personally. It's a brand new service that JUST launched and you are already threatening over it. That's not only a little childish but silly. Give them a chance to get started and i'm sure they will fix the little trivial things like wasting the 5 minutes of your time that you are so upset over. I imagine that amazon will rapidly expand to your area .. it is just a brand new freshly launched appstore, i'm sure they are just getting the ok's and legal agreements in place to do so.
JadeMar 24th 2011 7:46AM
@William It might be a brand new service however the other 19 odd app stores for Android all launched with people worldwide able to use them for fee apps - and the majority for paid apps as well. Yes they actually finished their appstore before releasing it. And the big issue is their gathering of personal data. Why do they need to do that. There is no need. And what are they going to use it for? It's not childish or silly at all. Tell people upfront they can't use it. And yes I did submit my official complaint today to the Australian Privacy Commissioner. Just think about this - you see something you want in Europe, go to the site and give them your name, email, address, credit card details, etc., then make you download and install a program to get what you want, then right at the end they tell you that you can't use it. They just can't do that. When you signup and you tell them you live in a country that isn't the US it should tell you then. And they signed up world-wide exclusive access to a lot of apps - not just US exclusive, thedevelopers can't release them to any market anywhere in the world. Read the non-US based tech blogs, Amazon is getting a caning, read the Amazon Facebook page, read the app reviews (yes Amazon actually lets people review apps before buying them), look at Rovio's twitter, etc. Amazon appstore will never recover. Australian radio this morning talked about it and the radio announcer whilst admitting he wasn't an expert in tech regarded the Amazon appstore as the worst technological release for mobile phones in history. - but as I said earlier all the tech experts outside the US agree with him.