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Originally Posted by SCION
Yes, an app would be convenient, but you can get to your Cloud content rather easily. There's no misrepresentation.
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Okay, maybe it's not misrepresentation, but there's certainly a lot of confusion especially around this docs and video Cloud.
Here's how it should work: the Cloud should be a service of the Fire. Tabs marked Newsstand, Books, Music, Video and Apps should lead to corresponding folders in the Cloud drive where you manage that content. If you upload a book to your Cloud drive, it should appear on your Kindle's library. If you upload a personal document to your Cloud Doc folder, it should appear on the device as available for download under the Docs tab. If you upload a video to your Cloud video folder, it should appear as available to download or stream from the Video tab on the Fire.
That would be the simple way to do things; manage content on the Cloud from the web interface for all kinds of content - use that 5GB as much as you like for whatever you like. Buy more space if you want it. But that doesn't seem to be the way things work at all; the Docs is only for on-board storage (backed up in the Kindle Archive), the Video is only for on-board storage and as a digital locker for purchased content, and there are no books or newsstand folders on the Cloud drive at all..
It's all a mess is my point. Amazon just got a little ahead of themselves introducing the Cloud drive and the app store without thinking about how they would work best together with the digital content archive and personal documents on the Fire. And they haven't been clear about how it all works, so it's leading to confusion, which is not good for device adoption. Maybe they'll take a step back and in a few months time be able to tweak it to work like it should.