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I was super impressed by Amazon's big splash. The $79 price point is going to blow off the doors. What Amazon has done in putting together an ecosystem of books, movies, apps -- puts them up there with Apple in "what you have to do to make a successful tablet".
The Kindle Fire is it's OWN thing -- not an iPad wanna be.
The pricing of these products is super aggressive. It will be interesting to see what steps, if any, Amazon will take to keep other vendors off as clearly they hope to make their money selling content, not making the devices.
Clearly, some folks will buy a Fire who might otherwise have bought an iPad. I just don't see it being THAT big a group enough to worry Apple. The folks who are going to be hurtin' for certain are B&N, Sony and Google.
Yep, I'm including Google. Google is getting nothing out of this deal. On the contrary, Amazon isn't putting on any of the Google apps and is using it's own browser. This browser is going to give Amazon all that glorious user data that is Google's lifeblood.
Lee
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