The Kindle Fire now holds over half the market share for all android tablets. I am sure the fact that it is only $199 helped that happen fairly quickly and the fact that Amazon took a note from Apple's playbook and made this a closed environment. What this means for Google is that 54% of all android tablet devices are not using the Google Play store and are not paying google a dime for apps. That is because Amazon has it's own app store and does not allow access to the Google App store. This is limiting in a way to the amount of apps you have access to but it also means that every app you download you know will work flawlessly with your tablet. Something the Google Play store cannot boast with the plethora of apps and tablets that use it's services. As it turns out many more manufacturers are now playing around with the idea of making their own store and limiting Googles access to these devices. This in itself does not look good for Google and it's plan for Android. But then again they did want to provide android as a system that any company could make their own. All I can say is look our for a lot more fragmentation if this catches on with other manufacturers.
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