The biggest problem with Amazon's Fire-anything is that they want you to use their platform and don't give you a lot of options. The great part about the Android OS is that it is open, but Amazon uses that same OS as their base but then takes away a lot of that. They strip out all of the google play services in exchange for their own app store. Sure, there are ways around it, but why bother if you can just get a different tablet/phone elsewhere?
Exactly. The closed system works for Apple but anyone else trying to emulate that doesn't have a lot of luck. People looking into other options are going to want an open system. The only person I know who owns a fire tablet is my nephew, and it was a gift from his grandma. I very rarely see them.
The biggest problem with Amazon's Fire-anything is that they want you to use their platform and don't give you a lot of options. The great part about the Android OS is that it is open, but Amazon uses that same OS as their base but then takes away a lot of that. They strip out all of the google play services in exchange for their own app store. Sure, there are ways around it, but why bother if you can just get a different tablet/phone elsewhere?
It essentially locked you down into amazons ecosystem...
Exactly. The closed system works for Apple but anyone else trying to emulate that doesn't have a lot of luck. People looking into other options are going to want an open system. The only person I know who owns a fire tablet is my nephew, and it was a gift from his grandma. I very rarely see them.