
The Android app does not need to be modified, and it takes just a couple of minutes to upload the application, add images and media, and text. What PC Magazine fails to take into account is that applications and games don't need to be ported to be published on the Amazon App Store. Microsoft's own Store has over a billion potential users, but many publishers of major applications have not released apps for the Store.


Major games like Genshin Impact or apps such as Signal or Slack, are not available in the Amazon App Store.ĭevelopers and publishers could push their apps to the Store as integration in Windows 11 could reach a wider audience because of that, but the author does not think that this is going to happen. While it does offer apps and games that are not available on the Microsoft Store, it is not offering a complete catalog of Android apps. PC Magazine believes that the Microsoft's Android App Plan is doomed, but is that really the case? The main argument for the theory is that Amazon's App Store offering is not as extensive as that of Google Play. Sideloading refers to the installation of applications directly, without using a Store to do so.Īmazon's App Store offers a large collection of Android apps and games, but not as much as Google Play, the store that is installed on pretty much all Android devices outside of China. Microsoft has not confirmed the fact officially yet. A Microsoft employee revealed on Twitter that sideloading would be supported as well, but details on the process have not been revealed yet.
