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Originally Posted by Horemheb
Taking your example of shoes it is like if you were saying that buying CAT heavy duty boots is sometimes an act of rebellion against Nike running shoes. In some odd situations it might be true but for the most part it has nothing to do with it. Heavy duty boots are not for the same purposes as running shoes just as eInk readers are not for the same purposes as a tablet. I know a lot of people with eInk readers but none of them actually considered it as a replacement for iPad (or any other tablet for that matter) moreover a couple of them have both eInk and iPad, just like many readers here.
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I think this pretty much sums things up for me, the kindle serves a different purpose for me than my ipad because regardless of the whole e-ink vs lcd issue for reading comfort, the greater portability of my kindle allows me to take it everywhere with me and its much smaller weight also means that it has much less influence on how I use it e.g. standing on crowded public transport I could comfortably hold a paperback or a kindle one-handed whereas I find my ipad far less comfortable to use that way and it tends to mostly be used at home for things that better suit its strength such as comics or magazines on the colour screen.
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So buying Samsung Galaxy Tab might be rebellion against Apple and now Xoom also might be but Kindle? No way. Not to mention the other eInk readers like Nook and Kobo which are also not rebellion against Apple. 
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Even in the case of those two tablets you mention it does them a disservice to try and diminish people's valid choices for choosing those devices by labelling them as rebellion against apple when somebody might simply prefer an os with less restrictions or having the option of using flash or being able to avoid the bloated nature of the itunes desktop application.