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Amazon Kindle Fire redirects all Android Market requests to Amazon App Store
The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet runs on a version of Android so heavily customized that it might be considered a stretch to call it an Android tablet as far as the average user is concerned. The Fire does run Android apps, and Amazon makes it easy by giving it direct access to its own Amazon App Store as well as allowing sideloading of apps from your computer. However, installing apps directly from the main Android Market is verboten unless you go through the process of rooting your Kindle Fire to install it.
Those are the basics, but one thing you may not have realized is that Amazon has taken it a step further: redirecting all requests that would normally go to market.android.com and redirecting them to its own App Store app. The process...
