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Originally Posted by bhartman36
So I think if Amazon wants to sell those kinds of things through the tablet, it's got to be at least Nook Color quality or better. That's a crowded field, I think.
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It's a crowded graveyard. From what I've seen, the Nook Color is the only Android tablet to achieve anything close to real success, at least the kind of success Amazon would invest in. New offerings are promising, but that's how it stands. By and large, Android tablets have fallen flat. People didn't buy iPads because they really wanted tablet devices; they bought them because it was an iPad, with Apple's enormous, polished ecosystem right out of the box. They bought the iPad experience.
If Amazon only seeks to topple the Nook Color, they only need to release something marginally better in a similar price range. Combined with Amazon's ecosystem and brand, at that point B&N may as well open the factory doors and run the NC conveyor belt straight into a dumpster. But I don't think Amazon will settle for NC-like success.
Amazon is the only company with the potential capability to back their product in an Apple-like way, using their market clout, cracking the whip and beating Android software development into polished, refined submission. They've already begun with the App Store, weeding out the trash to ensure consumers of their potential device aren't faced with the jumbled mess of the Android Market. Will they do it? I'm a bit skeptical as well, but time will tell.