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Interesting that it's the Amazon App Store. I assume they couldn't get Google Play and picked the second largest Android store?

marinhero 5y ago
You can still sideload the Google Play Store and install apps from there. It just requires a couple of extra steps.
jccalhoun 5y ago
google has announced their own version for games. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-brings-android-games-to-windows-in-limited-very-limited-beta/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-brings-androi...
Someone1234 5y ago
Maybe Microsoft wants to keep Windows their advertising sandbox therefore working with the largest advertising company in the world wasn't seen as wise. Whereas Amazon's whole thing is just about ecosystem building/device tie-ins, so there's less conflict of interests (Microsoft after all doesn't make many of the devices or services Amazon does).
chipsa 5y ago
Google Play has specific restrictions on what it can be bundled with (it can be sideloaded latter without issue right now).
dpark 5y ago
I can’t imagine that Google was willing to play ball on this. Google has aggressively leveraged their control of their properties to block Microsoft in the past (e.g. YouTube on Windows Phone). I expect that Microsoft reached out to Google about Android support on Windows and Google promptly said that they aren’t going to give up a Chrome OS advantage. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft. But I have no insider information on this.
- DoctorOW 5y ago
  To clarify, I'm not surprised Google Play didn't work out. I'm surprised they picked Amazon specifically.
  - chipsa 5y ago
    I mean, if it's not Google, what's the alternative?
  - selectodude 5y ago
    Amazon seems to be the store of choice for "non-sanctioned" Android things. It was the official store for Blackberry when they put their Android emulator on their phones too.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  From what I remember, Google have specific conditions when it come to YouTube which ads is one of those conditions. I recalled Microsoft have a YouTube app didn't shows the ads which violated their term of services. Amazon did similar and that lead to corporate war against Google since Google put their foot down.
  - dpark 5y ago
    Microsoft rebuilt the YouTube app following Google’s own guidelines and it was still blocked. At least that’s my recollection.
    - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
      I managed to find the article that discussed about this second rejection [0]. And Microsoft response to the second rejection [1], I have to use Wayback since MS returning 404 for their blog. [0] https://www.engadget.com/2013-08-15-google-blocks-windows-phone-youtube-app-again.html https://www.engadget.com/2013-08-15-google-blocks-windows-ph... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130816024629/http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20130816024629/http://blogs.tech...
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marinhero 5y ago

You can still sideload the Google Play Store and install apps from there. It just requires a couple of extra steps.

jccalhoun 5y ago

google has announced their own version for games. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-brings-android-games-to-windows-in-limited-very-limited-beta/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-brings-androi...

Someone1234 5y ago

Maybe Microsoft wants to keep Windows their advertising sandbox therefore working with the largest advertising company in the world wasn't seen as wise. Whereas Amazon's whole thing is just about ecosystem building/device tie-ins, so there's less conflict of interests (Microsoft after all doesn't make many of the devices or services Amazon does).

chipsa 5y ago

Google Play has specific restrictions on what it can be bundled with (it can be sideloaded latter without issue right now).

dpark 5y ago

I can’t imagine that Google was willing to play ball on this. Google has aggressively leveraged their control of their properties to block Microsoft in the past (e.g. YouTube on Windows Phone). I expect that Microsoft reached out to Google about Android support on Windows and Google promptly said that they aren’t going to give up a Chrome OS advantage. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft. But I have no insider information on this.

DoctorOW 5y ago
To clarify, I'm not surprised Google Play didn't work out. I'm surprised they picked Amazon specifically.
- chipsa 5y ago
  I mean, if it's not Google, what's the alternative?
- selectodude 5y ago
  Amazon seems to be the store of choice for "non-sanctioned" Android things. It was the official store for Blackberry when they put their Android emulator on their phones too.
Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
From what I remember, Google have specific conditions when it come to YouTube which ads is one of those conditions. I recalled Microsoft have a YouTube app didn't shows the ads which violated their term of services. Amazon did similar and that lead to corporate war against Google since Google put their foot down.
- dpark 5y ago
  Microsoft rebuilt the YouTube app following Google’s own guidelines and it was still blocked. At least that’s my recollection.
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    I managed to find the article that discussed about this second rejection [0]. And Microsoft response to the second rejection [1], I have to use Wayback since MS returning 404 for their blog. [0] https://www.engadget.com/2013-08-15-google-blocks-windows-phone-youtube-app-again.html https://www.engadget.com/2013-08-15-google-blocks-windows-ph... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130816024629/http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/08/15/the-limits-of-google-s-openness.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20130816024629/http://blogs.tech...

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