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Old 09-07-2011, 04:06 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by kjk View Post
The real test will be if: a) Amazon forks Android, and b) invites companies like Velocity to come on board.
That won't happen until they start getting exclusive apps on their appstore. However from what I've read dealing with Apple is a stroll in the park vs dealing with Amazon.

Also remember Android phone apps are the same apps for the tablets developing for the Android market you have access to the world instantly and you have access to 100+ Million phones/tablets.

Already devs complain about supporting different hardware on Android but developing for the Amazon Appstore is not much extra work since the targets are the same. What happens if Amazon forks? Now devs really have to support another platform since Ktabs will be frozen on 2.2 and the rest of the android community advances to Ice cream. Amazon has a lot of work in front of them and I don't think they realize how hard it is to keep a parallel fork. Not only does Amazon have to roll Google's code back into their own, if they want to keep compatibility, they also have to skin their code.

In a year it will be a bigger mess.

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