Voyage Kindle Kindle is first not to support third-party apps – Liliputing

Amazon Has Been offering third-party apps and games for its Kindle eReaders for years … and I’m not talking about tablet apps for the Kindle Fire.

There are a few hundred games and apps available for the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Keyboard, and other eReaders with E Ink screens.

But you can not run any of em on the new Kindle Voyage.

A member of the MobileRead forum noticed it was impossible to download any calculated previously Purchased Kindle Active Content apps on the Kindle Voyage, and Nate from The Digital Reader Reached Out to Amazon for an explanation. He got it: the Voyage does not support These third-party apps and it never will

Amazon is not pulling the plug on Active Content altogether … you can still download and install Scrabble, Solitaire, BlackJack. , NotePad Plus, and other apps on other Kindle eReaders including the Kindle Paperwhite Most recent entry-level Kindle and models.

But Amazon is not really Promoting the platform and is instead focused on Developing the Amazon Appstore for Fire tablets (and other Android phones and tablets).

So if you’ve been using your Kindle to play games for years and you do not want to lose the Ability, you might want to hold off on updating to Amazon’s new eReader top tier. I suspect there are not all that many people who fall into que camp.

This is not the first team has Launched the new Amazon Kindle que que lacks the feature was available in older models. Older models used to include headphone jacks and support for text-to-speech. But Amazon stopped offering Those features with the introduction of the first Kindle Paperwhite in 2012.