The Fire phone was an epic disaster for Amazon that has been discontinued. The games with discounted in-app purchases include some of the most popular games on the Play store, like Epic War’s Mobile Strike; EA’s The Sims FreePlay; Ludia Inc.’s Jurassic World; and SGN’s Cookie Jam, among several others. That phone ended up not only being a laughing stock of the tech industry, but it also jeopardized some of Amazon’s hardware relationships.
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The report has quoted sources from Amazon and states the company is now in discussions with Android smartphone makers (or OEMs). Six weeks later, Amazon slashed about $200 off of both options and the price kept falling.
Android now has almost twice the app downloads of Apple, which has seen its numbers stabilise in recent years. It’s believed that the company ultimately wants to create a phone that would run something similar to Fire OS, though without any Android reliance.
The kicker to this would be that Google services probably wouldn’t be allowed on these devices.
In short, Apple makes the most money, while Google has the most downloads. Doing so may well block those manufacturers from ongoing access to the Google Play Store and Google Play Services. Instead, the Fire products are loaded with Amazon’s music and video offerings, and the Amazon Appstore. After the evolution of high-graphic smartphones, most of the brands and social sites are now available in the form of Android / iOS/ Windows App for better and smooth user experience.
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While some of the retail giant’s apps are already available on AT&T and Samsung phones, the report claims the ecommerce giant wants a deeper integration and greater backdoor access to Google’s Android operating system.
