It still amazes me that bloggers who don't know their backsides from a hole in the ground can wildly speculate and have those speculations picked up and regurgitated by the so-called news sites as though the speculations meant anything other than being the speculators' wish lists. News sites used to be run and written by educated journalists with true journalistic skills. Now almost anyone with a keyboard can write for them.

One thing is for certain, we will see Thursday what Amazon has in store for us. I just hope they did a better job on the tablet this time around, but judging from the historical record of Amazon I suspect much of what people dislike about the Fire's firmware will not change much, just like much of what we dislike about the Kindle eInks rarely seems to get much better. Amazon tends to update the hardware end while not improving the firmware that much.