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What tends to happen to people is that they're satisfied for a while, until they see their friends doing things with their tablets that they would like to do, also. Like play specific games, run specific apps, etc. That's the lesson that Palm (and then HP) learned with WebOS: The size of your app store matters - a lot. It's not enough to have 50,000 good apps if your competition has 300,000 apps, some of which are good.
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I will agree that apps are crucial to the mobile device experience. I disagree, however, that app store size is all important. IMO, a well-run, highly curated app store of 50,000 apps may offer a better UX than a sprawling, unorganized mess of a store with 300,000 apps, the majority of which are fart apps, copycats and malware. This is what Google Market has devolved into, and there are even hard core geeks out there who hope that the Amazon App store will be a quality alternative to Google Market.
I agree with you that TM is wrong about people just wanting a cheapo, low power tablet. The average Ipad user does a lot of multimedia on their tablet. Netflix , for example is a must have app for me and others, and I also watch a lot of videos from Itunes, Tedtalks, and other places.And there is gaming.
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Mobile gaming continues to be on a tear, and no surprise, it's the biggest single app category in Apple's App Store, accounting for half the downloads of both free and paid apps. According to research data leased by Distimo and Newzoo, during the month of March, more than 5 million games were downloaded by users in the US and six European countries per day.
According to the survey data, these 63 million iOS gamers downloaded an average of 2.5 games per month. The percentage of iPhone owners who play iOS game is between 50 and 75%, and based on the number of gamers playing on iOS devices, it looks as though the iPad alone has started to unseat those devices particularly aimed at gaming, such as the Playstation Portable.
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Not only do tablet owners want to do multimedia on tablets, Amazon surely wants to sell/rent multimedia to them. They have an app store with games , VOD, and movies/TV for sale/rental.
All that to me says that Amazon will be offering a high performing 10" tablet.Maybe they'll offer a 7" device, but that's murkier . I think an Ipod touch device focused on music is likely. Amazon sells mp3s.