Google Play Services is Only for Google’s Android Once you have the hardware, you’re more likely to spend money on additional Amazon services and products. That’s the point of the Amazon Fire tablet line, anyway-it’s an inexpensive window into Amazon’s services. Rather than handing you off to Google Play for app purchases, video rentals, music downloads, and eBooks, Amazon wants you to use the Amazon Appstore, Prime Instant Videos, Amazon Music, and Amazon Kindle apps. The cheapest version of the tablet even ships with lock screen advertisements, and you have to pay a little extra if you want to remove them.īut why doesn’t Amazon just use Google’s Android? Well, Amazon wants to control the entire experience.
Amazon hopes to make more money off you in digital sales.
You can get an inexpensive, $50 Kindle Fire tablet-but you’ll have to use Amazon’s appstore and services instead of Google’s. That’s Amazon’s value proposition, after all. If you want the entire ecosystem of Android apps without jumping through hoops, you might want to get a more typical Android tablet. RELATED: How to Turn an Android or Fire Tablet Into a Kid-Friendly Device with FreeTimeīut what does the difference really mean? Well, if you just want an inexpensive tablet for browsing the web, going through emails, and watching videos, there isn’t that big a difference. These kid-friendly parental-control features are one of Fire OS’s more unique features. Amazon even sells a Fire Tablet designed specifically for kids that bundles in a number of services and adds a nice, “kid-proof” case. The home screen even contains Amazon’s shopping site, making it easy to buy more stuff - and give Amazon more money.įire OS does have a nice, kid-friendly “ Kindle FreeTime” feature that can be combined with an “Unlimited” subscription for access to thousands of kid-friendly educational apps, books, movies, and TV shows. Amazon’s home screen experience can show a grid of apps, but it also shows you videos, music, and ebooks from Amazon. Amazon doesn’t make it possible to change the launcher as you normally can on Android devices, so you’ll be using Amazon’s home screen experience. RELATED: What Custom Android Launchers Are and Why You Might Want to Use One You’ll be using Amazon’s own apps-the Silk Browser instead of Chrome, for example. You also won’t have access to Google’s apps or Google’s services. Instead, you’re limited to Amazon’s Appstore and the apps available there. For the average person, the big difference between a regular Android tablet and Amazon’s Fire tablet is that the Google Play Store isn’t present on the Fire tablet.
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