Amazon forked Android to better fit their needs for the OS. The new Kindle Fire HD proves to be a better fork of it. Customizing the OpenSource to fit their specific needs is the new trend right now.
Will Samsung take it and run also with their version of the forked OS?
If it will be the case, it will be like the OSes that forked in the desktop environment. Remember OpenSuse Linux? Those BSDs, and other Unix like systems? Where are they now?
They are not on the mainstreams of the computing world. Most of us still uses Windows OSes.
Will the fate of the desktop environment in this aspect will happen again in the mobile world?
I think three or four OSes is enough for people to chose from - Namely iOS, Windows, and one of the forked Android OS that will prevail all the Android ecosystem. I'll bet for the Samsung (if they fork it) and the Amazon Android forked OS (2aOS)
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