By: Juli Monroe
I’ve stopped calling it a “tablet” and started calling it an “Amazon media consumption device.” That’s not a shot. Many of the people buying one are looking exactly for that, and they’ll be delighted....
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Books, movies, borrowing books, audible and immersion reading is my main use for it. I am bummed over the VoIP thing, I rather use talkatone or Groove ip then Skype, but at least it has one dialing...
View ArticleBy: flyingtoastr
I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this. Amazon has been using a proprietary format for their books since they started selling them, it’s only a logical extension that the rest of their ecosystem...
View ArticleBy: Nate Hoffelder
It’s not the proprietary format that was a warning sign; Mobipocket already was proprietary before Amazon bought them. No, the warning sign was the fact that Amazon excluded all other retailers from...
View ArticleBy: Peter
It’s surprising because updating and maintaining an ebook format is fairly cheap and easy, whereas maintaining an OS is highly labor intensive, expensive undertaking. It would make sense for Amazon to...
View ArticleBy: Andrys
Syn, get the 1mobile.com app and then download Mantano and Aldiko. They both do a good job of reading DRM’d and non-DRM’d ePub books on the Kindle Fire.
View ArticleBy: Lil
I installed google maps by attaching the apk and emailing it to my email on the KF HD. I open the email on my KF HD and clicked on the attachment to download and then clicked again again to install it....
View ArticleBy: Jim Henley
I got GMail, Currents, Chrome, Maps, YouTube, and the pre-Play Store version of Music working and syncing on my Fire HD without much trouble and without rooting it. GMail and Music were biggies for me...
View ArticleBy: Nate Hoffelder
Yes, but the point about installing apps in the right order is so that they can add back in the stuff Amazon took out. I too followed the i<a...
View ArticleBy: Juli Monroe
I’ve stopped calling it a “tablet” and started calling it an “Amazon media consumption device.” That’s not a shot. Many of the people buying one are looking exactly for that, and they’ll be delighted....
View ArticleBy: Syn
Books, movies, borrowing books, audible and immersion reading is my main use for it. I am bummed over the VoIP thing, I rather use talkatone or Groove ip then Skype, but at least it has one dialing...
View ArticleBy: flyingtoastr
I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this. Amazon has been using a proprietary format for their books since they started selling them, it’s only a logical extension that the rest of their ecosystem...
View ArticleBy: Nate Hoffelder
It’s not the proprietary format that was a warning sign; Mobipocket already was proprietary before Amazon bought them. No, the warning sign was the fact that Amazon excluded all other retailers from...
View ArticleBy: Peter
It’s surprising because updating and maintaining an ebook format is fairly cheap and easy, whereas maintaining an OS is highly labor intensive, expensive undertaking. It would make sense for Amazon to...
View ArticleBy: Andrys
Syn, get the 1mobile.com app and then download Mantano and Aldiko. They both do a good job of reading DRM’d and non-DRM’d ePub books on the Kindle Fire.
View ArticleBy: Lil
I installed google maps by attaching the apk and emailing it to my email on the KF HD. I open the email on my KF HD and clicked on the attachment to download and then clicked again again to install it....
View ArticleBy: Jim Henley
I got GMail, Currents, Chrome, Maps, YouTube, and the pre-Play Store version of Music working and syncing on my Fire HD without much trouble and without rooting it. GMail and Music were biggies for me...
View ArticleBy: Nate Hoffelder
Yes, but the point about installing apps in the right order is so that they can add back in the stuff Amazon took out. I too followed the i<a...
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