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So Amazon can't get Acer to build them phones or tablets. As most independent manufacturers build Android phones, Amazon had a hard time finding someone to make Fire for them.

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Your source does not back up your claim. Acer signed a completely different agreement to join the Open Handset Alliance and that's why they couldn't make another Android-but-not-Android based device. Joining the OHA and signing the "non-fragmentation agreement" has nothing to do with licensing Android, which as I mentioned above is really trademark licensing that requires you maintain compatibility for that one device.

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