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Amazon: Is an Android fork inevitable? Meet Kindlebread
- junklight 16y agoIn one of those co-incidence moments cmsj predicted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508174 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508174 Android may have lots of share but all the companies working on it are working on slim margins and don't have big resources to put into it. Amazon on the other hand have a big stake in the content too and can do a much better job IMO. Will we finally get to see a decent competitor to the ipad? (and for those people who want a pad that's actually a netbook - you aren't the market and you don't want a pad either!. And no this won't be the 'ipad killer' because lets face it the concept of the X Killer is total rubbish - show me a market place where there is room for a single product and any other product will either take the whole market or non at all)
- wccrawford 16y agoI don't expect it'll be forked more than Android has been before. They'll have added special things to it, but it'll still be based on Android and when it comes time for Android 2.4 or 3.1, they'll be porting their stuff to it instead of continuing with their fork of 2.3. They aren't the first to add special interfaces or change things that you'd normally assume were standard for the OS. And they won't be the last.