{"id":54398,"date":"2013-05-23T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54398"},"modified":"2013-05-23T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:17:10","slug":"amazon-appstore-hits-sa-free-apps-and-games-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54398-amazon-appstore-hits-sa-free-apps-and-games-every-day","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Appstore hits SA, free apps and games every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon Appstore for Android is available in South Africa following the recent launch of the service to 200 new countries by the retail giant today (23 May 2013).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers around the world can now buy apps and games directly from the Amazon Appstore on Mac, PC, Android phones and tablet PCs (including Kindle Fire),\u201d Amazon announced in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon also announced that <a title=\"Kindle Fire HD coming to South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/78569-kindle-fire-hd-coming-to-south-africa.html\">Kindle Fire will be available in over 170 new countries<\/a> (including South Africa) on June 13.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the launch, Amazon said that the Appstore is bringing back one of its most popular \u201cFree Apps of the Day\u201d: Fruit Ninja, along with Cut the Rope: Experiments.<\/p>\n<p>These will be available, for free, on 23 May and 24 May, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Among the features of the Amazon Appstore is offering a paid app for free every day.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More SA gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/54166-kalahari-pre-order-gaming-special.html\">Kalahari pre-order games on discount special<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/54134-uncapped-adsl-price-comparison-5.html\">Uncapped ADSL price comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/53982-sa-game-rooks-keep-hits-steam-greenlight.html\">SA game Rooks Keep hits Steam Greenlight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53858-pc-format-discontinues-sexist-and-offensive-advert.html\">PC Format discontinues \u201csexist and offensive\u201d advert<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/53462-what-influeces-game-prices-in-south-africa.html\">What influences game prices in South Africa?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/78569-kindle-fire-hd-coming-to-south-africa.html\">Kindle Fire HD coming to South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is among the 200 countries that have received the Amazon Appstore for Android<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":52935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2794,9626,10094,6785,5512,21,2752,5793],"class_list":["post-54398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-appstore","tag-amazon-appstore-for-android","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-amazon-kindle-fire","tag-headline","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}