{"id":5928,"date":"2011-12-27T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T12:24:46","slug":"the-ics-kindle-fires-will-help-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-ics-kindle-fires-will-help-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The ICS Kindle Fires will help Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And there we go &#8211; a bit later than I expected, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2011\/12\/26\/2662269\/kindle-fire-android-4-0-pre-alpha-hack\">Amazon Kindle Fires are being flashed with clean Android ROM&#8217;s<\/a>, in this case of 4.0 and the Ice Cream Sandwich build. To be honest this was always going to happen, and I think the few hundred Fires that will be flashed won&#8217;t worry Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos will be happy with the extra PR and marketing going out there to help sell more\u00a0catalogues Kindles for his digital store. It&#8217;s building mind share, and it gets over the idea that the Kindle Fire is the only true Android tablet in the eyes of the regular consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there we go &#8211; a bit later than I expected, but Amazon Kindle Fires are being flashed with clean Android ROM&#8217;s, in this case of 4.0 and the Ice Cream Sandwich build. To be honest this was always going to happen, and I think the few hundred Fires that will be flashed won&#8217;t worry Amazon. Bezos will be happy with the extra PR and marketing going out there to help sell more\u00a0catalogues Kindles for his digital store. It&#8217;s building mind share, and it gets over the idea that the Kindle Fire is the only true Android tablet in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25],"tags":[167,2217,3452,3380],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-amazon","tag-android","tag-ics","tag-kindle-fire","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1xC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}