

The second is that you may already have an Android phone, tablet, or other device. The first is simply that while there are tens of thousands of Android apps and games in the Amazon Appstore, there are millions in the Google Play Store. There are a few good reasons why you might want to install Google Play on an Amazon tablet. And that means that it’s surprisingly simple to install the Google Play Store on Amazon’s latest tablet. While Fire OS continues to put an emphasis on Amazon’s apps and services, making Fire tablets most useful for customers who stream music, movies, and other content from Amazon or read Kindle eBooks, the operating system is based on Google Android.

The 12th-gen Amazon Fire tablet is the first device to ship with Fire OS 8, the latest version of Amazon’s tablet operating system, and it’s now available from Amazon for $60 and up.
