Amazon Kindle fires don't have Play Store. Manufacturers could set up their own app stores like Amazon did.

Amazon is the only one who could possibly pull that off. Everyone else needs the play store.

Amazon would probably let them use their store though...

> Amazon is the only one who could possibly pull that off. Everyone else needs the play store.

Samsung alone has more market share (by device) than Apple.[1] Samsung could probably do it, but it would be bumpy.

> Amazon would probably let them use their store though...

Maybe not without major concessions. Amazon subsidizes a lot of apps in their store because of their add serving architecture.

1: http://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor

There is no Google Play store in China.

It might come though http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/06/no-really-this-time-...