Amazon Banning the Chromecast Is Unbelievably Stupid

Amazon Banning the Chromecast Is Unbelievably Stupid

How the Amazon vs. Google Battle Began Chromecast users have been upset about the lack of Amazon Prime for a while, but the Amazon-Google grudge didn't start with the Chromecast. Amazon's ongoing battle with Google largely stems from the fact that, unlike most manufacturers, Amazon wants to use Android, but be completely independent from Google at the same time. When a company like Samsung, Motorola, or LG make an Android device, they use Google's Play Store to distribute apps, as well as Google Play Services to add features to their apps. Amazon is the notable outlier. Instead of making Google's version of Android, they made their own variant for the Kindle Fire , complete with their own non-Google app store . And in fact, Android was meant to be an open platform where people could do exactly that. If you want to use Google's services, you have to abide by some rules, but anyone is free to make their own Android ecosystem if they so desire. So Amazon did. Advertisement The problem is,

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