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Not sure what you mean by locked down. The amazon app store has a fair number of apps in it and it has always been possible to sideload apps from external sourc

by cherioo 11y ago

Not sure what you mean by locked down. The amazon app store has a fair number of apps in it and it has always been possible to sideload apps from external sources, even sideloading google app services and play store (at least in the fire phone and previous gen fire tablet, not certain about the new one). I don't think it's any more locked down than Google Android or iOS.

linuxkerneldev 11y ago
> locked down. It this context, I presume it would mean can't reflash firmware or modify aspects of the firmware. For example, on some devices you have full control so you can modify and replace everything from the bootloader to application level software. For example, maybe you would rather run debian on this device rather than android-fire.