Comment on Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8
siipale@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks agoThere are a host of other deliberate annoyances Amazon has created to make sure the tablet is used for their purpose rather than your own.
Do you have some examples? Sounds both horrible and interesting.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Icons cannot be removed from the launcher screen, they can only be combined into folder. The folders cannot be hidden or removed. Preinstalled programs cannot be uninstalled or disabled. Nothing works until the tablet is registered with Amazon. There is no app drawer. It’s possible to install another launcher, but it’s not possible to use it because Amazon has hardwired the home button to their launcher. (There used to be ways around that but Amazon has systematically disabled each of them.) Their Silk browser is terrible. Most every Amazon app provided is terrible.
I get that it’s cheap and there will be significant compromises, but at least some of Amazon’s apps should be somewhat comparable to non-Amazon apps.
I’ve gotten around some of this by loading the Play store and F-Droid, but it’s clear that Amazon’s tablets are not only cheap but they’re low effort products.