I think kindle has ended up in this place but it isn’t where it was hoped to go. I remember when the Amazon App Store was first announced and there was no talk

I think kindle has ended up in this place but it isn’t where it was hoped to go. I remember when the Amazon App Store was first announced and there was no talk of the devices being these value oriented Amazon content consuming portals. There were a lot of competitors back then. This was still around the time Palm had just given up, BlackBerry was briefly hopeful with the Playbook but most importantly the Barnes and Noble Nook was competing hard for these users. In my anecdotal experience, Amazon Kindle fire purchasers were not in love with Amazon back then. They just didn’t want to spend the money Apple was asking for iPads (which lacked as many purchase points and previous gens) In one clear example, the person was downloading apps to do soduku, trying to listen to podcasts. whatever but did not subscribe to Prime and did not do delivery of items. Do you understand the current posture of Amazon toward app dev on Fire to be negative / not encouraging? I can see why these would be focused now entirely on portal to Amazon, but then I wonder why have an App Store for the product at all.