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Originally Posted by JAcheson
I don't know that I buy "Amazon waited until the time was right to release the Kindle Fire."
The first-generation Fire was actually kind of rough around the edges, from the reviews I read. B&N had a slight advantage at that point in that they were competing against a first-gen device with their second-or-third generation device.
In the end, though, the Kindles beat the Nook fairly soundly. I'm guessing that Amazon's reputation and ecosystem and marketing was what put them over. That and the fact that the Nooks that followed the Nook Color were fairly underwhelming hardware-wise.
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I agree. The kindle fire was basically the same as the color, with a dual-core CPU - so effectively the same as the Nook Tablet, which came about a year after the color. If Amazon had had the fire in the works "long before" the color, then it would not have come out that much later than the color.
And yes, the Nook Tablet was a poor follow up to the Color, it simply improved the CPU by adding dual-core and doubled the RAM to 1GB, but other than that, there was nothing in it.