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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
You can sideload many Google apps (Gmail, Chrome, etc) on Fire tablets without rooting them. When phones hit hands, we'll see if they can do the same thing or if Amazon has erected any roadblocks.
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That's not correct. There may be a few Google apps you can sideload, but most of them require changes to the framework to run (on custom roms you flash the gapps package to get these changes). Also, more and more apps rely on the Google Play Services library, which is also missing from the Amazon build, so any app relying on that (not just Google's) wouldn't run.