Quick Amazon Silk thoughts
Posted by: QuirksBlog,
on 29 Sep 2011 |
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So Amazon has announced its Kindle Fire tablet, and it will not be an iPad killer. It runs Android, but not the standard Android, but rather a special Amazon port that does not include any standard Google apps. Notably, Amazon will have its own app store.The Kindle Fire will also sport its own browser: Silk. Kudos to Amazon for actually giving their browser a name. That helps a lot.Yesterday I was surprised at the fact that so many people were surprised that Amazon would use its own browser. What...