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Originally Posted by kennyc
I fail to understand why you believe this is a fight between apple and amazon. Nothing could be further from the truth. Apple is nothing compared to Amazon in the book selling market. The intent here is not to compete with the iPad, it is to provide another avenue to sell books.
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I understand that. Amazon's intent is to sell books. That's why it would be (IMO) foolish for them to go into the tablet market. They've already got software that runs on Windows 7, iOS, and Android. And WebOS is coming soon. How will selling their own tablet help them sell a single e-book that they couldn't have otherwise sold?
If Amazon releases a tablet, the only purpose for it would be to compete with the iPad. Otherwise, the whole exercise is pointless, as far as I can tell. It would be like a car stereo manufacturer selling cars to increase business.
The most I can see them doing is releasing a color LCD reader that you could turn
into an Android tablet (a la Nook Color). That's not a terrible strategy, except that Amazon's gone all in on e-ink devices (for themselves), and there's
already a Nook Color on the market.