Well, that kills at least 2 sales.

Yeah, sure it’s fair. You’re getting the Amazon reader, cheap. What do you expect? If you really care enough you’ll root it and/or sideload the apps.

I think it’s fair. Part of the beauty of Android being open-ish source is that manufacturers can use it as they see fit, not only how Google sees fit. Amazon isn’t selling it as an Android device as much as a Kindle device, so I don’t think it’s misleading.

If they went out of their way to lock it down, then I wouldn’t consider
it for myself, my family, nor my clients … but I don’t think that’s
the case. Let the builders configure it how they like and sell it; let the owners configure it how they like once they pay for it.

As another comment noted, they are selling Kindles, not tablets. And one of the reasons it’s cheap is that they are making money from content. That seems like a fair trade to me. I have one, for $200 it’s just fine, and does what I thought it would do: give me access to Amazon’s content, and do a couple of other things.

And you are surprised??? Amazon’s primary goal is to make money and to maximize the chance restricting apps is an easy call. Buy a “real” tablet if you want all the apps, not a Amazon or other closed tablets.