Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

UPDATE 10/02/2014: Amazon Free Coin Offer for Amazon Prime Members only: Amazon is currently giving 500 Free Amazon Coins(for main PRIME member account only) when you stream your first movie or TV show on your Android phone: (This is a REALLY good offer if you have an Android phone, valid through October 16, 2014 at 11:59 PM PST (See my 10/2/2014 comment below for the direct link to click on as Amazon won't let me directly link it within my review) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1002988611 UPDATE 12/7/2013: I originally gave this 2 stars but have updated it to 4 stars. Why? Because Amazon has been giving lots of FREE coins away for buying Free apps, mostly Kindle Edition apps. In the past 2 months I've earned about $15 from the free coin giveaways. These coins can be used to purchase other apps and also for in-app purchases. How do you find out when free coins are being given away? Well, that's the hard part but I will try to post in the comments of this review in the future when I come across the giveaways. UPDATE 5/24/14: (Memorial Day Weekend, Time Limited Offer Only) Amazon has 5 Select Android Apps with 200 Amazon Coins Each for Free ($10 Total Value--it doesn't have to work on your device to get the coins and you don't have to actually download the app until if and when you want to try it.) Food Network In the Kitchen iHeartRadio - Free Music & Internet Radio Strawberry Shortcake Bake Shop - Dessert Maker Game for Kids in Preschool and KindergartenStrawberry Shortcake Free Don't step the white tile Dr. Panda's Restaurant - FREE - Cooking Game For Kids ORIGINAL MAY 2013 REVIEW: I must admit I became rather excited when I saw that Amazon had started an Amazon Gold Coin program. At first I thought it was the solution for a way to be able to "gift" Amazon Apps to my kids, family members, and friends as I often do with MP3 purchases on Amazon. After reading the details that certainly isn't how it works. I'm very disappointed that it doesn't seem to be anything more than a coin based banking system solely for the purchase of Amazon Apps. Now, if Amazon awarded coins as bonuses for purchases of various OTHER items sold and fulfilled by Amazon, that WOULD be interesting. But as it stands, it is limited to only Android Apps and you must pre-buy the coins to get the small discount, which is not all that useful. What's next? Silver Coins for Amazon Instant Video? Bronze Coins for Kindle e-books? If Amazon wants to further promote the use of their Kindle tablets as entertainment devices with these Gold coins, they should be redeemable for ANY content that can be used on a Kindle Fire(or compatible devices): E-books, MP3's, Amazon Instant Videos/TV shows as well as Apps. Wouldn't that make more sense? Also, forgive me for not being impressed with having to spend $90 to get 10,000 Gold coins to save $10 (10%) on Amazon Apps. Who buys that many Apps? Amazon needs to work on getting the latest versions of apps available to us much quicker (like Google Play does) before they start trying to ply us with tiny discounts like saving $0.20 for buying 500 coins at $4.80 I hope this is just the start of some bigger picture idea that Amazon has. Expanded correctly it could be very promising. We'll just have to wait and see. For now anyway, thanks Amazon for the $5 and the periodic Free Coins.