If you happen to use Roku devices to watch Netflix, YouTube, and other entertainment apps on your television, you can use your Fire tablet to stream some of your favorite content to your device.
Between the Fire tablets, the Fire TV devices, and anything that runs Alexa, you’ll find the best ecosystem for your device exists in the world of Amazon Prime. When you purchase a Fire device, you’re buying into the Amazon and Amazon Prime ecosystem. Amazon’s Fire tablets, for example, forego the ability to use Google’s Cast interface, despite running the same underlying architecture as a standard Android device. Your entire Kindle eBook library syncs with the Kindle apps on both your PC and your smartphone, the movie you start watching on your laptop through Amazon Instant Video picks back up with the app on your smart TV, and the apps you install on one device can appear on every single Fire-branded device in your library.Įven though Amazon’s main operating system is built on top of Android, it’s clear when using an Amazon device that you exist in Amazon’s ecosystem, not Google’s. For the better part of a decade, Amazon has put work into building an ecosystem of devices that are designed to work together as cohesively as possible.
