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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I don't think they are aimed at existing users, they're more for the new Xmas market. If they had wanted people to upgrade they would have replaced the keyboard with an extra inch of screen.
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This is my sense of things, too. The new Kindles aren't primarily aimed at existing owners (unless their Kindles broke, I guess). They're for people who don't already have Kindles --especially those who were holding off because of price. Even though they're ad-supported, Amazon broke the $100 mark with these Kindles, so that will attract some people.
I'm not sure what to think of the Kindle Fire. Clearly, a $200 tablet is a big deal -- especially if it can be rooted to put a later version of Android on it. On the other hand, 8GB of memory w/ no expansion slot is kind of hard to swallow for a tablet these days. That's less than a lot of phones have now.