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Old 03-08-2012, 08:39 PM   #152
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Originally Posted by wizwor View Post
I disagree. I don't think Amazon needs to make 'significant' money selling tablets. Maybe it's, "Can Apple survive in a world where nobody makes significant money selling tablets?"
Uh, Apple has the volume and pricing to make money off the hardware, on top of their content revenue. There is no reason to even dream of them of them *not* surviving.

Amazon has the largest volume of the alternatives but their pricing suggests their hardware revenue is minimal: their game is centered on content revenue.

The others, from Samsung on down are mostly hardware-only players and too low on volume to match Apple and make more than nominal profits. So if anybody is going to fold and go look for a different game, it's more likely to be the android players than Apple.
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