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Summary: No one on the XBMC team wants to dedicate their coding time to removing features to please Amazon.

Great response (the whole thing, snipped for brevity in reply) should be on the Wiki, it was very explanatory.

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The reality is that the announcement and release of Fire TV is going to change the landscape of Android set-top boxes quite significantly. You can't ignore the fact that it costs $99 including remote. That makes it extremely competitive even with OpenELEC-based systems. I am a long-time XBMC user, and as soon as this thing was announced and people confirmed XBMC running on it, I passed on buying an OpenELEC system (which I strongly considered before) and ordered a Fire TV. Amazon is selling these things at a loss, and it's poised to become the dominant set-top box in the U.S., and then very possibly everywhere else where Amazon is present.

So pleasing Amazon to get on that little box may not be a bad idea after all. Again, if it's sold at a loss, open-source based hardware will never compete with it on price, by definition. And removing features is not a big deal. It's not like you'd be removing a whole lot of features anyway, and it can be almost automated.

Read the bolded statement I made again or even just the whole post.

But like I said in the post, if it's not a big deal, or it's not hard, then you're MORE than welcome to release your own version of XBMC for the amazon app store. No one is stopping you. I look forward to seeing AFMC.
After all, it's basically "automated" (I don't see how you can automatically code things but ok), so if it's not remotely hard then I guess you'll be releasing your own version shortly?

Will you also be remaking the skins as well to ensure they are now up to date with the new stripped down version of XBMC?

But like you said, it's easy, basically can be automated, so I expect you'll be doing it shortly.

lack of any framerate other than 30/60

Oh no, my videos have to run at the same framerate that all videos have run for the past century up until 2013. I think I am going to have a heart attack. 60fps, are you kidding me, what a disgrace.

You do realize right that no videos run at that frame rate and that they run at 24 fps right. This is what I mean by not doing a SINGLE google search before posting. Why purposely make yourself look stupid when you can search "Movie frame rate" and see that all movies are 24 fps and that recently they are hitting 48 FPS.
Please, google things. I even googled your statement just to be safe despite knowing the knowledge already because it takes THREE seconds to make sure that you don't look stupid.