Heck, even Microsoft's own apps are relatively scarce in the Amazon app market.

You certainly won't find most of the efficiency-boosting power tools we talk about so often in these quarters - not even the relatively basic and mainstream ones like IFTTT and Hue. You won't find password management services like LastPass, 1Password, and Bitwarden. You won't find any Google-made apps there, of course, but beyond that, you also won't find big-name business appliances like Slack, Trello, or Asana. The Place You Go for Android Apps Only If You Have Absolutely No Other Option Available™ (the unofficial tagline of the Amazon storefront).Īmazon's Appstore presents plenty of practical problems - chief among them the fact that its virtual shelves are relatively barren compared to the actual Play Store, particularly when it comes to popular productivity tools. Instead, they'll rely upon Amazon's Appstore, a.k.a. Now, what you might notice in that image leads us to the big honkin' asterisk with all of this: The Android apps on Windows 11 aren't coming from Google, exactly - not from the Play Store app market you're accustomed to interacting with on your actual Android device. When Windows 11 ships later this year, its new and improved Microsoft Store will feature a section of Android apps - sittin' pretty and waiting to be installed, right alongside the regular Word, Excel, and even Minecraft EXE files.

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