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Originally Posted by =X=
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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Don't worry. On another thread I was assured by the Android cognoscenti that Amazon forking Android wouldn't result in incompatability problems and that Android devs had everything under control. Taosaur:
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We're all speculating here, and I by no means have a deep, code-based understanding of the Android platform, but your concerns are largely groundless. While it is in a dev's interest to keep their apps as broadly compatible as possible, Android has not forked so far that "different versions" are required, except insofar as a device with an out-of-date OS may have to run an older version of a given app. There are some Honeycomb-specific apps, but that has more to do with hardware than software. The NC will never have Honeycomb (and the stock OS is Froyo, btw, not Gingerbread) because Google has strict hardware requirements for licensing Honeycomb, permitting the development of apps that rely on, for instance, a dual-core processor.
Even Amazon can only "go its own way" to a certain extent. Their app market still has to remain compatible with the Android products that are already using it, and if they had the development resources to maintain and update a truly proprietary OS, they wouldn't be building on Android in the first place. From the sound of things, they are working to integrate their core apps and services into their OS at the same level that Google has integrated their services into licensed Android products. Aside from perhaps making more work for anyone wanting to root the device and run Google services, that forking is trivial in terms of app compatibility.
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