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actually we do know it is technically capable of running existing iphone apps. so there is no reason the kindle app won't run from a technical standpoint. they were running existing iphone apps in the demo yesterday.
now, apple may set up a new policy and prohibit the kindle app from running for corporate reasons. that's an entirely different ball of wax. it would be a huge black eye to apple because you can bet amazon would be spitting out quite a few press releases "apple prohibited our existing application because it competes with their store". the media would be all over this, and the FTC might decide to take a look too.
apple has the lockdown on the music and video stores on the iphone/ipod because they set it up first. but there were ebook stores and reader applications on the iphone from 3rd parties before apple set theirs up. apple isn't going to have much choice in allowing others to run their ebook readers. so they give up one market segment to competition and maintain control over music and video.
with apple's new SDK policy of allowing VOIP apps, there isn't really any reason for apple to keep out google voice any longer either as they all will duplicate core functionality.
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