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Originally Posted by wizwor
ICS on a Fire
This is a very mature development version. I think it is interesting that the Fire is 1) targeted, and 2) malleable. I'm not very interested in rooting my Fire -- Amazon has made it very easy for technical people to bend and stretch their tablet. Still, I can imagine that Amazon is looking at ICS on the Fire and I suspect we will see a lot of value add there. I'd love to see the carousel area replaced with a gadgets area.
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Time will tell. Barnes and Noble appeared to be embracing rooters but then they took measures to make rooting more difficult. Whether or not Amazon follows suit (and makes changes to subsequent firmware updates less rooting friendly) depends upon their business model and agreements with content providers.
Rather than acting out of any malice, B&N may have been contractually obligated to take action to make their devices more difficult to root.