Stop buying things from Amazon. Evil company.

I learned this the other day when reloading one of my fire sticks with an updated app. I found plenty of strikingly similar android based sticks like the firestick that I plan to use when the fire sticks stop working. Not sure what to do if google disables side loading for android though.

There's no reason to buy one over a Roku anymore.

Stop calling it sideloading.

Its called "installing software", on a computer, that you own.

Doesn't that kind of defeat the point of buying a Fire Stick? Pretty sure most people bought that thing as an affordable Android TV box.

Edit: typo

A computer you can't install anything on? Wtf is the point in that

In an ideal world, they would get 0 sales.

I just want to see people out there figure out how to rip applications out of Amazons walled garden and see how difficult it is to run them on regular Linux desktops. Maybe React Native here ends up being a win for Steam Machines and home theater Linux

Crime.

We really need to kill sideloading as a concept. It's my hardware once I buy it. That's the way it's worked for hundreds of years. I won't tolerate this malarkey.

sideloading

A friend says that the Onn devices still sideload and have more memory and storage anyway.