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Originally Posted by afv011
All true, but I would add that presently the US is the largest tablet market there is, so there's a lot of incentive to cover that first. But I agree that the main reason is the availability of Amazon's ecosystem in its fullest.
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Fair enough, though Apple was fine with launching hardware first and following that up with services once they were ready.
Either way, that responds to only part of the question. Why is the Paperwhite being released in the U.S. only for now? Why was the Touch launched in the U.S. only for its launch year? Why is the only 3G Kindle available for sale by Amazon to some countries the (in tech terms) ancient Kindle Keyboard 3G?
Amazon fiddles while their international marketshare begins to burn (down to 23% in Canada, and dropping, for example).