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I was against the tablet idea at some point, like what for? There are hundreds of Android tablets now, what would make people buy theirs? But now I understand and I approve the choice of making one, to use their services and store, and the price is not bad, it still could be much better but depends on what they bring us.
But I don't agree if it carries the Kindle name, neither replace the Kindle. They have to continue the development of Kindle and do the tablet only as a supplement as it was referred on the interview. I expected to have a new Kindle or various (next generation, DX, alternative touch version if not implemented on main) announced this year, not launched but at least announced until the end of the year.
And for the last part, for me B&N aren't that much of a strong competitor for me, simply for the fact that they only do business in North America, if they started to think outside of an half continent and started to think internationally. Now in that case they would be a serious competitor, a very strong one. They should do this at least for their e-readers and e-books.
I know North America is big and has many possible costumers but compare it to the whole world.
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