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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
That's not really like the Kindle at all. I agree that they will have a 7" tablet as one of their models. My price guess for that is $299.
I think Amazon is more creative than to name it the "Kindle [X]," but they may very well do that. It's in their best interest to make the tablet stand apart, imo. They don't need the Kindle brand for recognition. They're Amazon. That's branding enough.
Also, Amazon allegedly set up an office building full of Android programmers a while back. Knowing Amazon, they will be putting a lot of polish and effort into their rendition of Android. This device is gonna be all Amazon, and my speculation is that the interface is gonna be impressive as hell.
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I wonder what is their relationship with Google now that they seem to, or are on the road, fork the Android Platform: simply meaning that they have taken the code and changed it, so that it will not be compatible with the Google Flavour of Android. The irony of this is that Google's Android is, itself, a fork of Linux.
Amazon and Google used to be best partners, if not, and I use the term lightly, "friends" in the first portion of the 2000's. Remember every time you typed searched terms in Google, an Amazon ad would show up beside with your searched terms in bold? I believe that there is some animosity between the two, especially when Google developed and promoted Google Books. Therefore, I believe that when there was the release of the Irivier Story HD, the first e-reader with access to Google Books, the line was crossed for Amazon, which would explain why they invested in an App Store and, like you said: "
...set up an office building full of Android programmers a while back."