Manually Rooting the Kindle Fire 2 with a Mac (opens in new tab)

Yeah, I think the only reason that Amazon has sold any Kindle Fires since the Nexus 7 came out is due to how much they advertise it on their site and because most consumers are poorly informed. Google needs to do a much better job of advertising the Nexus line.

There is absolutely no justification for an informed customer to pick the Kindle Fire over the Nexus 7. The latter is cheaper, has a much better and more updated OS, a lot better app selection, and can still access all the content the Kindle Fire can, except Prime Videos (which can still be sideloaded using an APK from XDA-Devs, the site linked here).

And of course part of the reason is that many people are buying these tablets as gifts. You don't put as much thought into a gift as you would into a purchase for yourself. Not only because people are selfish, but also because during Christmastime you have to buy gifts for a lot of people, and you know yourself better than you know anyone else.

I just got a Fire as a gift. I was told it was on sale very cheap. Maybe you're talking about the HD?

MarketEnabler/MarketAccess is also very useful, especially for people not in the US.

Should probably add that, if your interested I ran adb backup -all first.

Although I'm not sure exactly how useful the produced backup will be. More info at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351