Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires
by ineedtosleep on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:27PM
(#4486061)
Doesn't the Fire (and supposedly the new Fires as well), only have the Amazon App Store and don't officially work with Play? And from what I've used on the phone version of the Amazon App Store, your app is tied to that app. If you uninstall the App Store, your app will break. So yes, I believe that is a case for lock-in.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires
by Xuzz on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:31PM
(#4486083)
That's more likely because Google won't let them add it, not because Amazon wants to block it. Google Play is a proprietary service and they like to use it a a threat to force OEMs to cooperate. I don't see Google allowing it on a heavily customized OS that's barely "Android" at all.