I answered that badly (I was shutting down my PC to go home for the day
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Amazon devices are primarily meant to be for the consumption of Amazon content and are sold at relatively low prices with this in mind. They don't want people going to/using the Play store as they want them buying their Movies/TV, Books, Magazines and Apps from Amazon and nowhere else. It's the same reason any book apps, besides library related ones, that are in the app store are marked incompatible with the Fire's by Amazon and why places like Vudu, FandangoNow and Kobo's apps aren't in the app store at all (although years ago Kobo was briefly).
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No argument there.
I'm not saying Amazon needed to have the Play Store on their tablets. Apple doesn't have the Play Store, but you can still download Google apps.
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It has nothing to do with any kind of real feud with Google.
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That I disagree with.
Google and Amazon have been feuding for years. Since Amazon tried to add a back door app store to Android.
That's why I was pointing out that on Fire OS you can download Netflix, Hulu, Pandora and Spotify, which more closely compete with Amazon. But there's no YouTube app. Surely the least tech savvy person is more likely to know YouTube than Spotify?
Similarly, Amazon offers an Amazon Prime Video app on iOS, but not on Android.