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Originally Posted by Blossom
Google Play is overrated. I own two devices with Google Play and it seem with every update it takes up more space or they add additional crap to install on my devices.
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Besides, since Amazon ENABLED the Android setting that lets users choose whether to "allow installation of apps from unknown sources" or not, we can directly download from a curated selection of 300,000+ of the most popular GooglePlay apps at 1mobile and other Android appstores that don't shut out Kindle Fire owners.
It's so easy. You just get the other market apps and browse and download from them just as you do at Amazon or Google app stores.
Large tech-site's writers remain wed to the myth that Amazon users are tied to its store. The Amazon Kindle Forums are filled with people and designated 'Forum pros' (chosen by Amazon) who give advice on getting non-Amazon apps from other sites, via mere direct downloading. No need to copy a back-up'd app and transfer it, etc.
Google's general conditions for allowing devices access, according to reports, is they are to be made first choice for their services (apps, music etc) which would not exactly fly with Amazon, whose money is made from purchases of their content using tablets that are produced pretty much at cost.
It did fly with B&N (who did not allow its users to download from 'unknown sources' as Amazon does and probably as a result had weak sales and will no longer produce Nook tablets), as B&N had nothing to lose. Weak ecosystem, weak apps store, weak tablets sale.
To see how easily non-Amazon apps are put on a Kindle Fire HD (no rooting, no mods needed), see:
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2012...ndle-fire.html
(I don't emphasize HD's, as the new HD that replaces last year's non-HD basic model, and which has only 8GB of storage to start at the budget price, wouldn't be able to even store these apps, much less run them.)