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Originally Posted by HarryT
But you have to remember that this is not being sold as a general-purpose tablet; it's very definitely an Amazon content-delivery platform. It's clearly bring heavily subsidised by Amazon for that reason.
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I think you might be off the mark regarding cost Harry, if my memory of the estimate costs of other tablets is any gauge I actually doubt they are losing anything on the hardware, especially with many of the bells and whistles stripped out, so I personally doubt there is any subsidisation going on with the Amazon Fire.
As to how it is pitched, I don't deny it is akin to a Nook Colour moreso than say an iPad, but regardless it doesn't mean that the UI, older code base, loss of functionality and software support aren’t worthy of consideration when it will be compared to general-purpose tablets regardless of where it is expected to be situated. What they have added on top of the underpinnings (stripped down playbook hardware with a variant of android 2.3) hasn't so far really done it for me. Don't doubt others are impressed, and when it is ultimately hacked to run mainstream android it will make an interesting piece of hardware rather than the lessor known Chinese no-name tablets floating around.