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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
Because amazon also sells a lot of music, rents and sells a lot of digital video, etc? Remember that Amazon is not just about selling books.
They don't have to make much on such a gadget. They need a tablet or ipod touch clone that they can use to help suck away sales from iTunes.
Why else would they have done the Amazon App store? It's certainly not just to serve people with hacked Android tablets and for people to manually install on phones.
Plus, as a small bonus, they will help fight losing book sales to people who want shiny tablet gadgets for reading (iPad and Nook color owners).
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I think the problem with that theory is that they're not
losing sales to other devices. Again, they've got software (for music, storage, and books) on every device imaginable. They've even got their hooks into the iPad. They've got all kinds of platform-agnostic software. I don't see what they need their own device for. They're already accessible on everyone else's.
And if you were releasing a tablet, would you really want
everyone to be able to access your app store, regardless of whether or not they
own your tablet? The beauty of the Android Market is that it basically doesn't care what hardware you run it on, as long as you're running the right version of Android. And you can even get the Market working on devices that Google
didn't intend it to run on (like the Craig tablet I bought). If Amazon was seriously considering releasing their own device, they'd put the Android Market on it. They wouldn't bother with their own, and then release it for everyone to use.
It's cheaper and easier (and leaves them less vulnerable) if they let people buy Kindle books on someone else's tablet.