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Originally Posted by jhowell
Amazon has announced a hardware related event at 10AM ET on February 26, the same day as the Download and Transfer cutoff. Panos Panay, their new head of hardware development who came to Amazon from Microsoft, is supposed to be there to show off new products. Speculation is that they relate to Alexa.
However his department is also responsible for Kindles. There may also be news on that front, and I don't mean good news.
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They might just simply end eink kindles, Mac app & Windows app. Only have iOS and Android apps. The Fire is basically Android, so a version of the Android app. Exactly the sort of thing beancounters and an ex Microsoft person would like.
There is nothing compelling new that can do with eink, and for Amazon, control is important. The Alexa division is under pressure to save money.