TNW’s Apps of the Year: Amazon Video’s offline playback puts it ahead of Netflix on mobile

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by Sindy Cator on December 17, 2015 at 3:20 pm

Posted In: Apps, apps2015, Around the Web, Insider

In our Apps of the Year series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for our favorite apps of 2015. Amazon’s app for its Prime Video streaming service might have taken its sweet time in launching for Android devices but when it arrived, it brought an inceedinly useful new feature for Android users. While it had been possible to use a convoluted workaround to stream the video catalog to an Android device since the end of 2014, it was only in September that the company launched a true standalone version for Android device owners. Alongside bringing a far easier way to get…