But if Silk is to serve a higher goal-driving Amazon e-commerce, say, or giving a foundation for a Web-app store push-then Amazon would likely extend to other areas. Keeping Silk as a Fire-only feature would mean the company can tout it as feature that competitors lack.
But once that's settled down, Amazon could go either way. Starting Silk support with the Fire tablet is smart: Silk development is vastly easier when it runs on a single device rather than a vast array of tablets, PCs, and smartphones. You may choose to send these reports when using Amazon Silk on other devices.' (Emphasis added.) As reader jason_untulis points out, the Silk terms and conditions state: 'If you use Amazon Silk on a Kindle device, your device will automatically send Amazon Silk crash reports to Amazon. Clearly some are defensive moves to fend off would-be typo squatters or other opportunists, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those addresses presage broader Silk usage later.Īnother bit of evidence supports the idea of Silk beyond Fire. Among hundreds of Internet domain names Amazon registered yesterday are a few that indicate at least the possibility that the company will bring Silk, its new browser beyond just Fire tablets.įusible spotted a long list of domains related to Fire and Silk yesterday.
