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I don’t know about google play, but you can buy kindle books on the device in Safari.

• colechristensen 8y ago
  That, to me, is unacceptable.
  • scarface74 8y ago
    It’s an unacceptable to go to a website? Especially in the case of Amazon, you probably already have a credit card on file. Everyone bemoans the “walled garden” and not being able to buy apps anywhere except for the App Store. Now here is a case where you can buy content using the “open web” and that’s not good enough?
    • colechristensen 8y ago
      The credit card is on file in my Audible app too as with the rest of them on android. I'm not sure if the third party apps are explicitly banned from selling or if they just refuse to pay the Apple tax, I'm not interested. Having to explain to my mother that the chromecast she got for christmas would only work on her phone if she first went to a website to buy a movie we wanted to watch and then opened the app to play, I feel like I am living in a bizarre parody. I don't want to deal with that needless hoop jumping and my mother just won't do it.
      • scarface74 8y ago
        Apple sold audio books through Audible for over a decade and you could sync your purchases back and forth. They were forced to stop because of regulators. https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14323438/apple-audible-exclusivity-agreement-ended-antitrust-investigation https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14323438/apple-audible-ex... But as far as your mom being confused. Isn’t confusing enough to use a Chromecast that requires a phone with a TV instead of using a remote? I can’t possibly see how it would be a better user experience to have to use a phone to control a TV than to be able to use native apps and a remote. If you are going to stay in the Android ecosystem, at least get something like the Nvidia Shield.