7 Great Android Apps You Can'™t Get on the Kindle Fire

So, Amazon doesn't exactly highlight this, but all of its Kindle Fires are Androids on the inside. Amazon slaps a heavy skin on top, so it's not at all recognizable, but it's Android all the same. Great, so you get access to all of the Android apps, right? Not exactly.

Amazon has strayed far enough from the Android path that it doesn't have access to the Google Play Store (formerly the Android Market). And while there are 50,000 offerings in Amazon's Apps for Android store, that pales in comparison to the 600,000 apps every other Android user has at their disposal. Read More