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The Kindle Fire and the Triumph of Open Source

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“Of particular interest is the Kindle Fire, a $199, 7-inch color
touchscreen tablet based on Android. It seems destined to become
the most credible competitor to the iPad.

One point I haven’t seen anyone make about this is the
importance of open source software to the evolution of the tablet
computing market. Google decided to make Android an open-source
operating system, which meant that third parties could take the
code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell competing
Android-based products.


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