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SDK? Well, here's the thing.
Amazon could and should provide as many ways to get apps on the Kindle as possible. They need Qt.
If Amazon is releasing a SDK based on the same embedded Java that's on the Kindle now, then they might as well just cut off a leg and tie one hand behind their back.
Embedded Java is awful. It's been on many, many phones for years and years... way before the iPhone. Nobody coded for it. Now, some of that was simply boneheaded barriers to entry, but there was never really a good platform there to code to.
My most recent experience with it was trying to port a modern Java Sudoku generator to it... major language features were missing on the embedded side (Generics, etc). It would probably have been easier to simply port it to C++.
I loved Java back when all I needed to be happy was a better graphics platform than Microsoft's GDI. My standards are much higher now.
There's a great enterprise niche for Java, but it has always sucked at embedded. Embedded Java is a serious mistake.
At least have the decency to run a full, modern Java. The Kindle looks like it can handle it.
Oh well. I guess the only chance they have is to maintain a much better ebook selection and lower prices than Apple.
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