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If you own an Amazon Fire Tablet, you will be restricted from using the Amazon Appstore, but it runs on Fire OS, which is a custom version of Android. That means that you can install the Play Store ...

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Google's making it easier to keep track of how many Play Points you're earning through your Play Store subscriptions.

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