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I own an Amazon Kindle Fire. It sucks. Out of the box it can do almost nothing that normal android devices can. I had to root it in a very frustrating and glitc

I own an Amazon Kindle Fire. It sucks. Out of the box it can do almost nothing that normal android devices can. I had to root it in a very frustrating and glitchy process to be able to install google app store software and even of that many don't install or don't work. What amazon has successfully done is build a kindle based on linux as opposed to whatever is on the original kindles. It's a very limited thing and nothing more than a kiosk to amazon purchases. The only reason people buy it is because of brand loyalty to the kindle device series they knew before.

bitwize 13y ago
The original Kindles, afaik, were based on Linux, with I guess a custom stack on top.
- briandh 13y ago
  Yep, the kernel sources are available on the Amazon website: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200203720 http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
king_jester 13y ago
> I had to root it in a very frustrating and glitchy process to be able to install google app store software and even of that many don't install or don't work. The root process for Kindle devices is very annoying. However, there is a reason why most app store apps don't work on Kindle. Unless a developer is specifically thinking about supporting a device without Google APIs, they are likely not to correctly handle when API calls fail or aren't available. Also, the Kindle Fires to date have had some quirks here and there that don't work exactly as you would expect, so a developer would probably have to actually test their app for Kindle (which is its own pain due to how bad the Amazon developer portal is).