They do: https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx14BH5AW0NG41K/Amazon-Maps-API.html https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx14BH5AW0NG41K/Amazon-Map... granted, this

They do: https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx14BH5AW0NG41K/Amazon-Maps-API.html https://developer.amazon.com/post/Tx14BH5AW0NG41K/Amazon-Map... granted, this might not be as fully-featured as Google's (I never used either), but given the existence of Openstreetmap and other efforts like the Nogapps project http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715375 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715375 there should be enough manpower to build a solid alternative. It's a bit sad that Amazon is not capitalizing/building-on/improving OSS, but it's even more sad that 99% (random estimate) of the (western?) Android apps are constraining themselves to run only on Google-licensed devices