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stonetools · 05-13-2011, 07:32 PM

Heh,

Steve Bezos:

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I give you the Apad, the Atouch, and the Aphone

Amazon looks like it's going all in on matching Apple mano a mano.
They are putting all the pieces together, and by the Christmas holidays I think it will all be in place.
As for price, I think that Amazon will be competitive with Apple, but that these devices won't be as cheap as people will be proposing.Quality components, quality hardware and quality programming all cost money. We know that you can put out a crap tablet that you have to hack to get any use out of it-there's been a gazillion of those. Amazon isn't going to compromise on quality and UX, so we'll see Amazon undercut Apple, but not by much.

05-13-2011, 07:32 PM	#102
stonetools Wizard Posts: 2,016 Karma: 2838487 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Device: Ipad, IPhone	Heh, Steve Bezos: Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you the Apad, the Atouch, and the Aphone Amazon looks like it's going all in on matching Apple mano a mano. They are putting all the pieces together, and by the Christmas holidays I think it will all be in place. As for price, I think that Amazon will be competitive with Apple, but that these devices won't be as cheap as people will be proposing.Quality components, quality hardware and quality programming all cost money. We know that you can put out a crap tablet that you have to hack to get any use out of it-there's been a gazillion of those. Amazon isn't going to compromise on quality and UX, so we'll see Amazon undercut Apple, but not by much.