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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Maybe I overlooked something, but I did not see anything in that article about it being locked down to anything. All it said was it came stock with the Amazon media apps, and worked with all the apps in the Appstore. It did not say anything about being limited to it. Or did it? Not that it won't be locked down. It may. Just sayin. Sorry if I misread.
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Well, it did say that the tablet OS will be an Android fork from a pre-2.2. version.
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My understanding is that the Kindle OS was built on top of some version of Android prior to 2.2. And Amazon will keep building on top of that of that over time. In other words, this won’t be getting “Honeycomb” or “Ice Cream Sandwich” — or if it does, users will never know it because that will only be the underpinnings of the OS. Any visual changes will be all Amazon.
They are not working with Google on this. At all.
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That doesn't sound to me like stock Android at all. Indeed, it sounds to me like there will be some incompatability at the beginning and it will grow over time. But then, I'm no techie and I could be wrong on this.