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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
You can run Edge on it, it's not in the Amazon Appstore but you can get it from the Play Store or somewhere else if you want it. I'd imagine Amazon wants the default browser to be theirs so they can make money from search. The only reason I could think to prefer Edge over Silk on Android is if you really want to sync tabs between desktop Edge and the tablet. They are both Chromium browsers at the end of the day.
As sad as it is I think it's probably easier to be productive on a Fire 11 Max than a 1TB iPad Pro with 16GB RAM especially if you're willing to go outside the bounds of Amazon's ecosystem. Android apps like Termux just greatly increase what you can do compared to iOS. I found that I could do more of my work anyways on a $80 Fire 8 HD than my 10" iPad Pro. It wasn't fast, but at least it could do it whereas on the iPad I had to remote into another computer to do anything and live with all the problems that caused.
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I am not saying that I want Edge myself, I'm just saying there should be alternate browsers available though Amazon's Appstore, if only so you can more easily share bookmarks etc. across platforms.
How have they avoided anti-trust issues like Microsoft had with Windows years ago? I guess because FireOS has only a fraction of the users of other platforms.
Amazon does not provide a search engine for Silk, and Bing is default. Microsoft is making money on this, and no doubt paying Amazon to be the default.
I thought I have made it clear that I do not need Fire to be 'productive' and have no interest in making it so by installing Google Play. I'm just calling out Amazon for making false claims, and laziness in terms of getting productivity apps in their Appstore.