Google and Amazon need to learn to get along

Google and Amazon have a funny relationship with each other. Amazon’s line of tablets, the Kindle Fire series, are powered by a heavily skinned Android operating system. And yet, Amazon has long maintained its own app ecosystem, and pitted it against the Play Store. Noticeably absent from Amazon’s app store is anything having to do with Google – Maps, Gmail, YouTube, etc. On the other side, Google devices, like the Chromecast, don’t work with Amazon hardware. For a cord-cutter like me, who loves Amazon’s various services, this can be a little frustrating.
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