Amazon Kindle Fire Disables APIs, May Not Run All Android AppsWhile the Amazon Kindle Fire is building up to possibly become one of the fastest selling Android tablets on the market, the truth is no one has actually held one in their hands.
Only available next week, to date Amazon has been taking pre-orders with launch estimates in the row of 50,000 orders taken daily. Analysts predict that Amazon could end up selling close to 5 million Kindle Fire tablets before the year is up.
Amazon Kindle Fire may not be able to run all Android apps out there
However while all these merits come solely based on its price tag and why it is being dubbed an "iPad killer", its capabilities may be limited. A recent post from Robert Scoble on Google+ explains:
I interviewed one company today that has an awesome Android app (millions of downloads already). They went through and demoed their new thing to me. Made me want to turn in my iPhone and go with the Android, but can’t talk about it until next week. Then they pulled out a Samsung Tablet and said "it works here too That was all great, until I asked them “what about the Amazon Kindle Fire?" They said "nope, Amazon is keeping our app from running."
It turns out that Amazon has for some strange reason disabled many APIs that are made available on other Android tablets, so it would be naive to expect all Android apps can work on the Amazon Kindle Fire. At this time it is unclear which and how many APIs have been disabled by Amazon on the Kindle Fire but given that Amazon never advertised it as a full-fledged Android tablet, you may just get what you paid for.
