In order to verify you’re not pirating their products, Amazon’s new Appstore on Android will reportedly require that you have the Appstore client installed on your phone and that you be signed into your account whenever you use their apps.
With that in place, it becomes unclear what happens when you use an Amazon app and you lose connectivity. Would living in a city like New York with notoriously bad signal mean you’re out of luck launching your apps? [Phandroid]