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Originally Posted by abbynormal52
What?? I don't understand what you are saying at all? I bought a Kindle Fire 7" that's what it is called?
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Even when they were called Kindle Fire (they are not now), they were not at all like a Kindle. The Fire has an LCD screen and has an Amazon version of Android, Android has bits of Linux but the GUI and application space is very different, you can add apps to a Fire, even potentially Android Playstore apps. A real Kindle has an eink screen and runs a version of Linux. You can't easily add any apps unless it's jailbroken and they are Linux programs especially adapted for the Kindle. You can't run Amazon or Playstore apps even on a jailbroken Kindle.
Microsoft did similar stupidity in the past with "Windows" applied to maybe up to five incompatible OS at the same time, some of which used incompatible CPUs and application compatibility was zero on some of them. They still misleadingly market x64 and ARM versions of Windows. The ARM based Windows will run very few ordinary Windows programs and uses an emulator to do it. It used to run none of them.