Push notifications / C2DM for Kindle Fire?

Question

AFAIK, push notifications require a Google account to work (they piggyback on GTalk), so does that mean for apps for the Kindle Fire are doomed if they use the standard C2DM

Answer 1

Note that Urban Airship ended support for Helium for Google Android - their custom technology that allowed push notifications to Kindle and NOOK devices (Helium For Google Android Sunset FAQ).

Here (Google Cloud Messaging Support FAQ) they do state:

"We plan to support Kindle via Amazon's Amazon Device Messaging (ADM) service at some point in the future."