What Kindle Means for Android
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What Kindle Means for Android
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#2The way android is used by Amazon is essentially how apple used unix core to get the basics right when creating a new software platform. A smart move obviously. What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it. That is the easiest way to differentiate yourself from the myriad of other cheap android device makers.
Im sure there is a lot of hand wringing going on behind the scenes for this to not have happened yet but its inevitable.
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#3The way android is used by Amazon is essentially how apple used unix core to get the basics right when creating a new software platform. A smart move obviously. What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it. That is the easiest way to differentiate yourself from the myriad of other cheap android device makers. Im sure there is…
The issue for the Samsungs and HTCs of the world is they don't really have the other assets that Amazon has. Thus they are less able/willing to turn down things like access to Google Play and Search.
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#4The way android is used by Amazon is essentially how apple used unix core to get the basics right when creating a new software platform. A smart move obviously. What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it. That is the easiest way to differentiate yourself from the myriad of other cheap android device makers. Im sure there is…
> What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here
I guess you haven't heard of HTC Sense, Motoblur, Samsung's Touchwiz, etc. and how users mostly hate them.
Savvy users seem to prefer taking Amazon's Android Kindles and installing vanilla Androids on them.
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#5Maybe this is just me, but if they have their own app store, their own UI, their own idioms and their own devices.... from any useful user or branding perspective, how are they Android phones?
And so more importantly, why does it matter for Android? It doesn't mean Android is more fragmented, because those phones aren't Android phones, it just means one more competitor in the smart phone market.
If anything, it makes it easier for developers, because Amazon phones will be easier to port to than another random smart phone brand.
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#6Maybe this is just me, but if they have their own app store, their own UI, their own idioms and their own devices.... from any useful user or branding perspective, how are they Android phones? And so more importantly, why does it matter for Android? It doesn't mean Android is more fragmented, because those phones aren't Android phones , it just means one more competitor in the smart phone market. If anything, it make…
It is, essentially, a completely different OS which happens to run the same applications.
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#7Charlie knows what's up! Amazon has all of the pieces in place to remain a disruptive force in the industry.
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#8The way android is used by Amazon is essentially how apple used unix core to get the basics right when creating a new software platform. A smart move obviously. What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it. That is the easiest way to differentiate yourself from the myriad of other cheap android device makers. Im sure there is…
What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it.
Re: What Kindle Means for Android
#9The way android is used by Amazon is essentially how apple used unix core to get the basics right when creating a new software platform. A smart move obviously. What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it. That is the easiest way to differentiate yourself from the myriad of other cheap android device makers. Im sure there is…
> What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here I guess you haven't heard of HTC Sense, Motoblur, Samsung's Touchwiz, etc. and how users mostly hate them. Savvy users seem to prefer taking Amazon's Android Kindles and installing vanilla Androids on them.
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#10It's kind of amusing to me how every now and then someone proclaims that Google has "lost control" of Android and how this must be some kind of crisis and portends a looming disaster.
Then we will have a series of people proclaiming how Android is not really open and what a farce Google's pretense of openness is, and what fools we were to ever believe that Google intended to make an open source operating system.
Frequently this will be followed by people lamenting "fragmentation" and demanding that Google put a stop to it by putting tight controls on who can implement Android and how they can do it.
These are all different sides of the same coin. Openness = fragmentation, openness = loss of control, openness = diversity, choice, innovation and endless possibility. It has benefits and downsides to be sure, but to think Google didn't know they were giving up some control of Android when they released it as open source is absurd - open sourcing something is by definition giving up control of it.