Yes and in fact what he did was more ambitious than just forking android. Since I am getting downvoted let me clarify....There is nothing special in the Kindle

Yes and in fact what he did was more ambitious than just forking android. Since I am getting downvoted let me clarify....There is nothing special in the Kindle....It just uses ordinary hardware with an open source operating system...yes any kid could make something like that....But what amazon is really selling is the services they have built through which people are going to buy content on the kindle!