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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Amazon did *not* do the same thing.
You have always been able to sideload apps on the Fire tablets, which you still can't do on Nooks. You can easily install competing reader and Appstore apps on Fires without hacking.
And, Amazon has been successful because they actually have viable music and video services within their ecosystem so they not only make money off books and apps, they make money off media content and ads.
(Plus physical goods.)
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In other words, it's not just about the presence or lack of the Google Play store that destroyed the Nook, it's about the fact that taking it away resulted in
a bad experience, because they couldn't make it work.
It's the typical problem with B&N, where they fail to provide a good User Experience. Amazon does manage it, so they don't need to provide the Google Play store. The "lifeblood" of the Kindle Fire is not in sideloaded apps, it is in the apps in the Amazon appstore. Unlike the Nook, which didn't have any "lifeblood" of it's own, so removing the Google Play store was a bad idea.