The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon’s store.

  • FreedomAdvocate
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    6 days ago

    If your point of buying it was to install non Amazon apps, you’re why Amazon are making this change.

    Fire sticks are primarily for Amazon services.

    • Addv4@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      True, but their main value proposition has been for a while that you can jailbreak them and stream pirated content on them, even for your less technical users. Honestly, it seems like Amazon is probably doing this for liability reasons rather than profit, as if profit were the motive, then they could increase the cost of the device due to “inflation”.