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Ever since my medical episode in 2009, an Apple iPhone has been within reach. \u00a0Counting \u00a0the one Countess has, I have purchased 4 iPhones and 3 iPads since then.<\/p>\n

There is a rumor that Apple has already canned the iPhone X and just hopes to unload their first run. \u00a0 The reason is the price, but that is not the only reason.<\/p>\n

I am fed up with a closed architecture with proprietary hardware, restrictions on software developers to only use the Safari WebKit html rendering library that crashes constantly and is very slow.<\/p>\n

I am disgusted that Apple squandered their lead with Siri who assumes that the answer to most questions exists in my music library or a nearby restaurant.<\/p>\n

I am tired of having to rent movies from Amazon\u2019s web site because Apple blocks merchants from having their non-Apple payment systems in an app so Apple gets their tithe from the masses. \u00a0 I am tired of seeing the pretentious corporate spaceship HQ. \u00a0I am tired of the Apple Store employees treating me like I should be grateful that they will talk to me only if I have an appointment. \u00a0 I am tired of devices without easily replaceable batteries and external memory cards.<\/p>\n

I bought an Amazon Fire HD Tablet a year ago during Prime week. \u00a0 It was a learning toy and somewhat interesting, but followed the same closed philosophy – you can have Android as long as it is Amazon’s Android. \u00a0 You use the Silk Browser. \u00a0[Firefox has eventually been added to the Apple ecosystem by complying with Apple\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

I love google software, but my attempts to add in the Google Play store failed, so I lost interest. \u00a0Now that we have a Roku TV with a FireTV stick, I decided to try a bit harder. \u00a0Countess now has her own Fire 8 Tablet and I bought the Fire HD 10 Tablet as a much cheaper alternative to a new iPad – as a side note, I am very unhappy the 7th Generation kindle\/Fire does not support Miracast that allows screen mirroring to the Fire TV stick.<\/p>\n

But I really want to run Google Earth and Microsoft Excel on the Kindle\/Fire Tablet.<\/p>\n

So last night I tried again to use the instructions at BoingBoing to Add Google Play Store to my old Fire 8 – in case the device was \u201cbricked\u201d. \u00a0 It went smoothly and I did the same on Countess\u2019s Fire 8 and then the new Fire HD 10.<\/p>\n

Success!<\/p>\n

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The camera on the tablets are horrible, but who takes pictures or videos with a tablet?\u00a0 Skype quality, perhaps…\u00a0 So the iPhone 7SE will live on until it wears out, but I am completely\u00a0 on board with the idea of an Android phone in the future.<\/p>\n

I ordered a\u00a0 microUSB to HDMI cable for projecting on the TV today.\u00a0 Using Wi-Fi for screen mirroring breaks down in 1080p when our neighbors come home and clog the Wi-Fi bands.\u00a0 Forget 4k in the future.\u00a0 It is just a matter of time until we have that 80 inch screen…<\/p>\n

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