Quote Originally Posted by Tanooki View Post
I'm surprised Google Play doesn't do this the way amazon does, but Google is android and Amazon is muscling in so looking at it that way probably explains it.
I know what you mean. Google Play gives away a free song every day (or at least Mon. - Fri.) yet it has no free app of the day feature. How logical is that? Amazon gives away a free paid app every day, plus gives away a free song every day, plus has other freebies in the Amazon song library.

Quote Originally Posted by y9784 View Post
Has anyone noticed that the Amazon App Store sucks up a lot of battery once installed. I like getting some of these apps but I eventually uninstall them because I find my tablet dead every time I want to use it.
Unfortunately a lot of apps eat a lot of electricity. I have most notifications disabled in the options menu of the Amazon App Store app and I believe that makes a big difference in energy consumption. Usually if I'm not using my tablet it is on its charging cable though, so I'm not sure how big the difference is. I can say that with my settings as they are, I can get about 6-8 hours of usage (including Internet surfing and HD video watching) out of my tablet before it needs to be recharged, which is far more time than I get on a full charge from my PSP or 3DS.

By the way, one of the worst offenders regarding electrical usage for an app is the official Weather Underground app. OMG, it literally checks its data source 86,400 times per day - that's one time every single second of each minute of each hour of the day. I like my weather data for the current conditions to be reasonably up-to-date, but that is way too much! An update frequency something like once every ten minutes at the most, and once per hour at the least is reasonable. But every single second?! That's crazy. Weather usually doesn't change very much from minute to minute, so 86,400 updates per day is crazy high!