An interesting point about how Amazon is using Google's open Android platform against Google.
The main point of this post is that at the Amazon Fire announcement (this is a 7"" Android tablet made by Amazon) they also unveiled a Silk browser.
On the surface this browser is supposed to speed access because it pre-loads web content. Users are sent through Amazon's huge EC2 server farm.
Looking a little deeper what probably happens here is Amazon gains access to all the browsing history because they're capturing that traffic and routing it through Silk.
This seems like the start of an attack of sorts against Google. If Amazon can think this up -- how long would it be before Apple might do the same thing on their huge iOS platform -- and maybe computers.
If competitors are suddenly controlling web browsing -- does that take apart at least some of Google's ability to serve ads? Or at least to analyze traffic?
Seems like an interesting ""tip fo the iceberg"" scenario that Google must be increasingly worried about.