Amazon App Store – Open For Business In Europe
Most folk this side of the pond have been eagerly awaiting this news for a while and now at least if you’re in one of these five countries, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, you will now be able to access Android apps for your devices. This provision has been available in the US since March 2011, so it’s great to finally join the roll out. The Amazon Appstore offers a free app a day so users in these European countries will now be able to benefit from this daily event.
With the Kindle Fire 2 launch rumored to be imminent this news is even more exciting. If you’re reading this in the UK, check out the Amazon app store here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.