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The Amazon tablet will be the first non-Apple tablet of the current 'large PDA' type to have easy access to a full ecosystem (Kindle books, Amazon MP3, video on demand, Amazon's Android app store). No other current tablet has anything close to the iTunes ecosystem, and for most people that is a big factor. I know you can access all that stuff on any Android tablet, and often more, but iTunes makes it SIMPLE (yes, horrible, but simple).
I heard that Android now accounts for 20% of the tablet market. It's only a matter of time before that becomes 60-70% - once manufacturers start to compete on ecosystem and not just the technology. Some of these tech companies need to learn that Apple is beating them by focusing on marketing and branding and that making products with better specs and functionality means nothing to their new target market - people who don't understand or don't care about specs and functionality.
Windows 8 will be interesting. A lot of people seem to be waiting for a fully functional tablet (i.e. that can access the full OS features and have lots more customisability and options) that is easy to use without sacrificing functionality. By comparison to Windows 8's tablet interface both iOS and Android look pathetically outdated and complicated (I watched a friend recently find a game on his iPad - he had to scroll through about 5 screens of icons all in rows...in 2011!). That said, if Amazon announce a decent tablet I will probably buy it even though I find Android kind of horrible after having used Windows Phone 7 for the last 6 months. I may find that I don't need a more capable Windows tablet later on, and I'm confident that anything Amazon make will be among the better of the Android options (assuming it exists and is running on Android).
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