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Originally Posted by mcrow
Kindles are best if you are a prime member. There is a lot of free content on Amazon prime that you don't get with iTunes, not to mention free shipping on items if you shop on amazon.
Even without prime she can still get netflix, download library books, and PD books. There are about 100K apps on Amazon and many of them are simiar to the popular apps on iTunes. You can also get apps from 1mobile which gives you access to most of the free android apps.
Not sure what you mean about Amazon being a subset of google play, but they are seperate stores though there are many similar apps, just like there are similar apps in the apple app store.
1mobile is basically a mirror of the free apps on google play.
Best thing to do would be to find out which apps she uses the most and see if Amazon or 1mobile has them.
If she would be intrested in a Prime membership Kindles are far better than iPads, IMO. Tons of free movies, books...ect to use on the Kindle.
The HDX 7" is also a lot less expensive than the iPad Mini and has superior hardware.
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From my experience, many of the apps in the Amazon Appstore are outdated versions of the Google play store apps. In fact, when an app I get from is buggy or lacks features, I sideload the Google play version on my kindle and it works much better.Just to provide two examples
I like to use ankidroid, a spaced time repetition flash card app. The Google play version syncs across all devices(a feature that is nice if you prefer to make your flash cards on a computer), the Amazon app does not, so I use the Google play version on my kindle.
The Amazon version of the mx player, which allows me to play wmv files, crashes and stutters a lot, but the Google version that I installed on my kindle works buttery smooth.