One of the most interesting announcements from Amazon’sepic press conferenceyesterday was the browser,named Silk, that runs on its newKindle Firetablet. Now domain name registrations amongst thosespotted by Fusibleindicate that Amazon has at least loose plans to bring the browser to other platforms.
Amonga huge listof domain names registered yesterday wereAmazonSilkForWindows.comandSilkForMac.com– suggesting that Kindle Fire’s browser could spread its wings to run on other devices.AmazonSilkForAndroid.comis also listed, suggesting that Silk could be offered on the Android Market for Android devices beyond the Kindle Fire (which runs a customized Android build) to run.
Expanding Silk to other devices would make sense for Amazon. The way it renders pages in the cloud to improve load times for end users would likely prove popular, even if Opera already does something similar. As others havepointed out, getting a vast amount of data on browsing users’ browsing behavior would be valuable to the retail giant as well.
Of course, companies register domain names all the time to protect them for things that they may possibly do in the future, so Silk moving to other devices is by no means a certainty. Still, it’s something to look out for.
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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