It depends on how far they have forked the OS. At this moment, I don't think Amazon cares about anything Google does. They already have the OS customized to mee

It depends on how far they have forked the OS. At this moment, I don't think Amazon cares about anything Google does. They already have the OS customized to meet their ends, anything they need, they can extend the OS themselves and that's what they have done. They are not sharing the code back to Android's ecosystem, so there are no benefits to the Android platform at all. One more thing to keep in mind, the millions that'll buy Fire will not see it as an Android device, they'll see it as a Kindle tablet which is not the same thing as an Android device. It doesn't benefit Amazon at all to follow Google, which was what this article was saying. If Kindle Fire really takes off well, the sales it generates will lure the developers away from Google toward Amazon as the leader for Android apps. Developers want to target the largest markets and with Fire, they can do just that.