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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by mwcampbell on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:45PM (#17146426)
There's always the Amazon Appstore. And with an open-source Android variant, you could restrict apps that demand over-reaching permissions, including the Amazon Appstore itself.
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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:58PM (#17146549)
The Amazon Appstore is trash, and many of the apps in it are out of date or outright nonfunctional. When I tried using Skype on my old Android phone, and it required Play Services, I was mystified because it was also available on Amazon.

As it turned out, the Amazon Appstore version was so out of date it just didn't work anymore.

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