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Originally Posted by ApK
Can you please give any specifics here? Yes, Fires don't have Google services, but for the most part, they run all the Android apps most people want. Not that I disagree that in many cases, people will run up against their limitations. -- I did, and I too no longer use Fires because of it-- but I think the price, support, etc, combined with the fact that they do indeed run most Android apps that folks seem to want just fine will make those limitations moot for many folks.
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I was speaking specifically of a device to be rooted to turn into a general purpose tablet. The deal breaker for me was no Fire slot for an external SD card. You have 16GB of internal storage, period. If that does it for you, fine. If not, the Fire is the wrong choice.
The Fire assumes your content will be stored on Amazon's cloud and you will be connected and access it from there, so you won't need a lot of internal storage. That assumption is not valid for me. I am normally not connected, and use locally stored programs and data.
Root it, and you probably can install the Google services, but if you're going to root, there are better devices to target.
For many folks the Fire is an appropriate solution. I'm not one of them.
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Plus if you are a serious Amazon content consumer, the Fire has added benefits, like really good Prime video support.
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Which is the point of the device. It's a content consumption device for content Amazon will sell you, and its purpose is to drive you to buy that content from Amazon.
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Dennis