Seen above: one of our Android apps in the German version of Amazon Android app store
Dear readers and customers,
yesterday we received an Email that by 20th of August 2025 Amazon app store will close it’s doors on all Android devices.
In the meantime several online media outlets reported about the same sad news, for example Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and many others. In the official FAQ the US retail company mentions no why, unfortunately. Official numbers speak of 70,000 affected apps at the moment.
We are directly affected by this.
The Amazon Android app store was the last one which held all of our Android apps officially and conveniently for users to download. After the closing of Opera app store and our own retreat last year from Google Play Store due to technical issues, there will be no app store method anymore to get our Android apps, unfortunately.
We are sorry about this but can’t do anything.
In the first place the Amazon Android app store was meant to be the number 1 distribution platform for Amazon‘s own devices like the Fire TV and Fire Tablet, which were Android powered. One current rumour in the IT world is these devices don’t sell very well, a platform like this for apps is not needed anymore in general. And secondly, there was just no competition possible against the official app store from Google. Nobody knows for sure because as stated above, there’s no official Amazon reason.
As a sidenote the app store suited very well as an alternative on Android devices with Custom ROMs. Together with F-Droid, the Amazon Android app store could be seen as one of three big distribution platforms for any Android device out there. As of August this year, this will not be an option anymore.
Thanks Amazon for this possibility to be in the app store here. And although it’s always said IT is way too fast for anything, we checked our app submissions and found out that we were part of it for nine long years. We will never forget that and thanks for all who downloaded our apps! You are awesome!
Only the best,
the aethyx staff
Dear readers and customers,
2025 freshly started and with it comes hope and optimism. Why not get active now and change to the better what we have in our own hands?
Let us help you with it. In the end, that’s why we are here. For some nice 15 years now.
When we started this project we didn’t know what the world would be in the future. There were some technological developments going on already which made it clear though that it will be all around the web. Gladly, to this day nothing here has changed.
What has changed is the mindset. However we can’t and won’t blame people here as all became way to complex to handle it all in a very limited amount of time.
So what we still try is to help people making the most of their limited resources. Be it time, money, hardware or software. We excel here because we know about the problem and needed to find workarounds for ourselves. Many realised and successful projects later, we wanted to give back what we experienced and thus the idea of AETHYX MEDIAE was born.
Our philosophy is you can achieve what we did too. And with our help you will need much less resources for this goal. What we burned you don’t need to burn yourself anymore, so to speak.
For us, people come first, technology second.
It’s no use to have the best tools lying around if nobody can use them. So we will not only help you set up your project, we’ll also accompany you in your journey to excel in it. Be it your own weblog where you share your knowledge and experience with the world. Your own Ebook with which you realised your dream of becoming an author. Your cool app which helps tackle an immediate problem in your every day life. Or in sharing your data with your loved ones or colleagues via secured and data proteced cloud services on EU soil.
It’s in your own hands. Never forget that and never loose your optimism.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Best regards,
your aethyx staff
Dear readers and customers,
we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
If you still are looking for presents, why not support endangered animals this year?
We not only included a cute cheetah Christmas greeting above, we can also provide you a useful website with last minute presents here:
https://aga-artenschutz.de/spendenshop.html?aktionsgemeinschaft-artenschutz-aga-e-v-5.
It’s the same organisation where we support cheetahs. But of course you know this already.
As 2024 comes to an end, so do we. We will plug us off now for a while. See you again some day in January. Try to take it slow and take care. These are difficult times.
Best wishes,
the aethyx staff
Dear readers and customers,
our current times are hard and there will be no excuses. It’s a paradigm shift for our world and especially for our minds. Let’s face it and be real here: it’s not 2000 anymore. We should all have realised this much earlier. And adapted accordingly.
We should know how technology works and what its implications are by now.
Despite this simple logic, under the hood really not much has ever changed.
A computer is still just a computer and there will be no quantum version of it for maybe many more decades.
A smartphone is still a phone but with applications similar found on PCs (or much inferior versions of those).
And AI is still not really AI but just machine learning algorithms which can’t produce anything without human created data.
So what the heck happened? Really!?
In this year 2024 it feels like we are still in the 50s of the 20th century: the Internet didn’t make people smarter – they became more stupid. And more affected by misinformation than ever before.
So what can we do now?
Get active!
Set up your blog!
Write your own book!
Get your independent cloud space!
Or, if you like programming, develop your revolutionary new app to make the difference today!
With AETHYX MEDIAE as your reliable and experienced partner, you can make a difference all by yourself and be part of a better and brighter future, not a darker one.
Drop us a line anytime at info@aethyx.eu. And add subject THANKS24 to get 20% off on all our services until 4th of December.
It can still work out for us. But only if we are working together. If this fails, all that’s left will be damnation. And not by divine powers but all by ourselves.
Take care and all the best
the aethyx staff
Dear readers and customers,
starting this month, we added a new feature to all our web projects: basically we are blocking all AI crawlers. Or at least we try to.
It’s not said that it works or the crawlers will respect our manually integrated rules. However, at least we tried our best.
We do this for two main reasons:
1) you should be in control of your posts and thus your data. If your individual posts are used for alteration, you should know beforehand. Currently this is not given with the methodologies machine learning tools are trained. These just use what they can find on the open web
2) if your work helps in any way for monetisation of individual companies, you should get your portion. Our idea is let’s be fair: 50/50. For every Euro earned with your hard work, you should get at least 50 Cents
Here is the current list of crawlers we try to block as of now:
If you are already a customer (thank you!), we activated it automatically on your website for free. There is no additional cost and there never will be.
If you want to join as a new happy customer, the feature is added automatically when we set up your site. The information is already up to date on the product overview page: https://aethyx.eu/eshop/.
Sorry for the inconvenience. In an ideal world this would never have happened. However we are far from ideal at the moment. Let’s look into the future as things can only get better from here.
Enjoy fall and best wishes,
the aethyx staff
