I bought the Kindle Fire HD tablet as an experiment a few years back, and found it almost useless for my daily tasks. It was OK for watching movies and reading

I bought the Kindle Fire HD tablet as an experiment a few years back, and found it almost useless for my daily tasks. It was OK for watching movies and reading books, but none of the productivity stuff I wanted from an android device was there. Stock Gmail app on android is much better integrated with Gmail than a bare-bones IMAP client (multiple accounts nicely recognised, different sync policies for labels etc), I missed the nice Google calendar integration etc. My business pretty much runs on google apps, so for that use case there is a huge difference between something running android and something running well integrated google services. I assumed getting google apps on Fire would be just a matter of installing, but it would require rooting the device and rebuilding the OS from scratch, which I didn't want to waste time on. I assume Fire phone will have the same issue. It is Android, but Android without Google services is pretty much pointless for me.