On the subject of total forking, I noticed an interesting tidbit today:
(a) the Amazon Appstore's guidelines say Android 1.6 and up is supported (with no other qualifications)
(b) they have Honeycomb apps in the Appstore
That's a small suggestion that they're looking to keep Android compatibility going forward (otherwise why let in apps that can't run on the Kindle Fire today?). Perhaps they were just trying to not tip their hand, but restricting things to Gingerbread and below doesn't sound that unusual to me.
(a) the Amazon Appstore's guidelines say Android 1.6 and up is supported (with no other qualifications) (b) they have Honeycomb apps in the Appstore
That's a small suggestion that they're looking to keep Android compatibility going forward (otherwise why let in apps that can't run on the Kindle Fire today?). Perhaps they were just trying to not tip their hand, but restricting things to Gingerbread and below doesn't sound that unusual to me.