[fjtorres]

Bezos: "Fire is a service." "We want to make our money when people use our devices, not when they buy them."

When a good chunk of the device's value proposition is the content it links to, there isn't much point in sending it out to places where that content isn't available (because of geo-licensing issues.)

Note how the bulk of the "Nexus is infinitely better" remarks come from people with no use for or access to the Amazon content stock.

Apple is different in that they make the bulk of their profits from the hardware itself.
(The iPod shipped for a year without any kind of music store.)

Different strokes for different folks.