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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
It’s possible, however as long as Apple and Google demand their pound of flesh for every book bought via an app on their platform, I’d argue Amazon still has an incentive to offer a device for which they control the distribution.
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I do at least half of my reading on a Kindle, but almost never purchase a book with one. Kindles are too slow for exploration beyond the usually not very good Recommendations, don't provide as much metadata about the book, and going through reviews is slower. So it's actually a much better purchasing experience to use a web browser (on any mobile or desktop device) than it ever was with a Kindle or the Kindle app.
Neither the macOS or Windows Kindle app have store (or even Recommendations) built in. In the case of Apple maybe there is some App Store restriction since App Store is the only way to get (the latest version of) it. But I think it is just that is more development work just to feebly duplicate the web browser experience, which the Kindle developers have little to do with.