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Amazon don't have access to Honeycomb source which supports larger screen. May be it is one of the reasons to think about buying webOS. Don't know how difficult
by mun2mun 15y ago
Amazon don't have access to Honeycomb source which supports larger screen. May be it is one of the reasons to think about buying webOS. Don't know how difficult it is to add support for larger screen in Android 2.2/2.3 though.
- mseebach 15y agoI would find it hard to believe that Amazon can't call up Google saying they need in on Honeycomb to make a Kindle run Android.
- glhaynes 15y agoWhy would Google give it to them?
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoBecause they'd already promised to release it anyway and they were buying at most 6 months lead time on a 'competitor' at the cost of forking their app base between two popular flavors of Android.
- glhaynes 15y agoDoes Google want Amazon's fork to succeed? They sure haven't welcomed them to the family...
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoGiven Sun's welcome to Android, I wouldn't assume a warm welcome is a reliable indicator of whether motives are benign, or legally binding if they later change. I don't particularly think that Google are popping champagne about the Kindle Fire, but if they had to choose I'm guessing they'd rather a Kindle Fire than a Windows 8 tablet or an iPad every time. Or indeed a hypothetical Kindle Fire from Amazon that ran iPhone Apps on a Windows kernel rather than being Android-based. (I was going to write WebOS there, but I think that's fairly positive for Google too)
- bnr 15y agoGoogle would most likely require them to put their Market on the devices. Amazon prefers to sell from their own App Store.
- justincormack 15y agoButbarent Amazon using their own GUI? The only low level stuff they might need apart from bug fixes is proper multicore support.