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by JDQuackers ⌂ @, McMurray, PA, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 06:20 (3791 days ago) @ stabbim

Notice NOTHING was said of Amazon or Blackberry phones :p


For the record, Amazon's phone IS Android. Heavily customized, perhaps, but still Android.

It's an Android fork, which means no Google Play Services or Store. So while the apk would be probably 90% the same, it would still require specific testing and development to work with their forked Android version and integrate into their background services since Google Play Games, GMS and GCM wouldn't be available. Not to mention Bungie would need to maintain another distribution channel (the Amazon app store).

This would probably be chalked up to the same status as Windows Phone. While it's not a tremendous amount of work, it's still work and the 2 users of the Amazon phone would more than likely not justify enough of that work.


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