On Sun, 2016-08-14 at 11:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 23:02 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > AFAIK Kindles don't run on Android.
> > 
> > Yes they do, its just a severely limited version of the OS heavily
> > modified by Amazon to directly support Amazon apps.  Amazon has replaced
> > the default app store with their own, uses the Silk browser, etc.
> 
> You appear to be talking about the Amazon Fire tablet. The Fire is not
> a Kindle. I've had several Kindles (currently using a Voyage) and none
> of them have an app store, run a browser called Silk, or mention
> Android anywhere in their documentation or system information. They
> also don't have a problem connecting to USB.

Correction: due to Amazon's confused marketing the tablets are actually
called Kindle Fire. However they are completely different from what is
usually called the Kindle.

poc
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