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They are shutting their app store down, at least for non-first-party devices: https://www.androidpolice.com/amazon-android-app-store-shut-...

In the tablet / phone world where end users expect to install applications from the playstore yes but there are many other device types that do use AOSP.

For instance some parking meters / train ticketing machines / payment terminals run Android. source: I work for company that makes some of them though we are moving away from Android to more classical embedded Linux.

Google play services doesn't matter in these contexts.

Interesting? So Android replaced Windows CE in some cases?

Your point is actually a good one because Amazon has abandoned its app store infrastructure. And it likely will just integrate Play Services in future.