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Why would Google give it to them?

• ZeroGravitas 15y ago
  Because 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 ago
    Does Google want Amazon's fork to succeed? They sure haven't welcomed them to the family...
    • ZeroGravitas 15y ago
      Given 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)