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Originally Posted by crich70
You might just as well ask why publishers make it hard for people to get their books in ebook versions. They are stuck in a 19th century business model and don't want to change even though it would be to their benefit in the long run. I can imagine that ebay is much the same way only in using regular (i.e. desktop or laptop) computers vs. a tablet to access their site.
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yes but ebay promote the benefits of the ebay app, and the paypal apps very hard. they even go to the trouble of emailing me to advise me to update....
just maybe they are more interested in getting the app mostly onto smartphones where they can spam out the instant notifications, and amazon no longer have a fire phone - but surely it costs ebay nothing to give amazon an up to date app for their store. same for facebook et al. It does not benefit them in any obvious way to hurt amazon's app and device sales
if amazon actually closed the loophole that lets you install the google play store, they would lose me as a tablet buyer. if I could not have Chrome browser with synced bookmarks on my tablet then I would switch brands immediately