The excitement is starting to wear off. As nice as the experience appears (esp. the browser) and even though I buy most of my media at Amazon....
This appears to be a seriously locked down, controlled experience, forcing you to their media and cloud.
This is not a typical Android environment in many ways. They're doing their own thing.
- No Google Market.
- No Google TV integration?
- What other Google apps would I miss?
- Amazon Appstore.
- What’s in it? Not everything in the GM.
- Can I load apps from a random web page?
- Can I side-load apps?
- Amazon only media?
- Can I side-load books, other media? Must have Calibre support!
- Hackable? They've got a carefully crafted experience and they're selling at a loss. I expect this to be locked down hard.
- Rumored to be on an old version of Android and not planning to keep up with the Android changes.
- Not as customizable, stuck with their UI. (This could be good. You can spend more time tweaking the UI than using an Android tablet.)
- “Free cloud storage for all Amazon content.”
- What about the Amazon MP3s I bought years ago?
- Will my other devices get to access it (free)?
- How much to store my non-Amazon MP3s, my photos & my videos?
- As cool as not needing a PC is, I don't need recurring storage fees.
- No GPS, cameras, 3G, memory slot.
- Privacy issues with your browser half in the cloud.
- Something better coming in Q1?
- Only 8GB of memory, forcing you into their cloud.
- No Dropbox. That's a competing service, too.
I'll probably wait to see if there are work-arounds for some of these issues. OTOH, $200 is
cheap.