UPDATE: Amazon’s most recent Fire OS update, 5.6.0, has broken the install button for third-party applications. Fortunately, there are a number of simple workarounds, including locking and unlocking your device or switching to the Amazon app store and back, to make that grayed-out install button clickable. If you’re able to do that, the instructions given in the rest of this post should still work just fine. Hopefully Amazon will correct this issue in subsequent updates.
With the new $150 Fire HD 10 tablet finally shipping, the first reviews of it are starting to pop up all over the place—and almost without exception, every review says that it’s a great tablet, but will unfortunately only let you install apps from Amazon’s store.
It makes me wonder just how much research any of those review writers ever bothered to do, given that restriction hasn’t actually been in effect for months…
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