If you use a Kindle, you'll get the app environment the Amazon Fire represents. The Fire is heavily integrated with Amazon Prime, Apps and Kindle. That's an advantage if that is what you want. But it means the Amazon Fire will not be as useful if what you want is an unbundled experience.
Amazon Fire was designed to make it easy to spend money with Amazon. For example Firefly, an onboard app, scans objects or listens to songs, then finds them in Amazon’s immense retail and digital content so you can buy them.
The Fire’s biggest drawback, at least for Android fans is lack of access to Google app store products.
All that is by design.
Friday, August 15, 2014
No Surprise: Amazon Fire Binds Users to Amazon Ecosystem
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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