Where Amazon really does well is streaming and communications/social media (definitely more on the social media side though).Īs for what's specifically missing, here's a brief list of the notables: The categories that are obviously lacking include Productivity, Shopping, and Miscellaneous, two of which really make sense. Red indicates the app is not found on the Amazon Appstore. On this chart, blue indicates apps found on both the Amazon Appstore and the Google Play Store. Shopping apps included things like Little Caesars, Domino's, DoorDash, Target, Walmart, and generally apps where you can buy things. Miscellaneous includes apps like benchmarking apps, IMDb, Runkeeper, and stuff that didn't generally fit into a single category. In my world, the line between social media and communications is a blurry one. Communications and social apps include Telegram, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and the like.

These categories should be pretty self-explanatory. Putting aside the fact that I have way too many apps installed, that gave me a good baseline. That left me with a total of 98 apps installed on my phone. I also excluded Amazon apps because I didn't want to stack the deck too much in Amazon's favor. Finally, I eliminated all apps that were device-specific: Moto apps, TCL apps, Samsung apps, and the like. Then, I eliminated all Google apps, even though Amazon and Google really just need to lighten up about this whole thing.

My line of work has me testing apps from all three carriers and the unfortunate side-effect of that is they all end up in my Play Store library.

I started off by eliminating any apps in my library that were carrier-specific.

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