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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
They don't need to lock anyone out. They only need to lock in their tablet.
If B&N had an app store the size and price of Amazon's Appstore when they launched the Nook Color, there would've been no need for me to jailbreak my Color.
Amazon tablet owners will have a large, friendly content environment and won't feel the need to stray. Other tablet owners have already strayed and may or may not get Amazon content.
Now price that tablet under $250, give it name recognition and you'll ensure far more content sales, because consumers will eagerly snap it up.
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Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but the Amazon App Store is nowhere even close to the size of the Android Market, is it? History has shown us (with the iPhone and the iPad, at least) that if people need to root/jailbreak their device to get the full experience, that's what they'll do. And if they can't get the full Android Market from the Amazon tablet, they're going to compare the price of it and any other device they have to root, and go with the cheaper one. That's why I think they'd have to undercut the Nook Color for their tablet to gain traction: Any tablet w/ a capacitive screen is going to be a threat. That means that cheap $100 knockoffs won't be comparable to the Android tablet, but the Nook Color and any similar devices that arise will be. Also, don't forget, the Amazon App Store (and the other things people list) isn't exclusive to Amazon's tablet. Any Android-based tablet can use them.
To make it worth buying an Amazon tablet over a Nook, I would expect the Amazon tablet to be priced ~ $199. With the limitations of the current Amazon App Store, I don't see any way around that.