Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor
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#2"With the tablet, Amazon is a follower. That’s never as good."
Unless you sell it for half a price is good enough for most people.
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#3I'm hoping Amazon will have a pretty good hook. I want to be excited to buy one. However, the kindle book offering is not enough. I love the kindle, but the kindle app is already fantastic on the iPad. So I don't need a new kindle tablet. Give me something new, Amazon. Or open up the developer program and let us help you.
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#4Maybe v2 will be webOS? One can dream, no?
Re: Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor
#5I'm hoping Amazon will have a pretty good hook. I want to be excited to buy one. However, the kindle book offering is not enough. I love the kindle, but the kindle app is already fantastic on the iPad. So I don't need a new kindle tablet. Give me something new, Amazon. Or open up the developer program and let us help you.
Some of the rumors make it interesting--free Prime membership namely. That ties it in with all the free streaming video they have which Apple has no match for.
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#6I'm hoping Amazon will have a pretty good hook. I want to be excited to buy one. However, the kindle book offering is not enough. I love the kindle, but the kindle app is already fantastic on the iPad. So I don't need a new kindle tablet. Give me something new, Amazon. Or open up the developer program and let us help you.
Some of the rumors make it interesting--free Prime membership namely. That ties it in with all the free streaming video they have which Apple has no match for.
Yea, I'm pretty optomistic for it. Amazon doesn't have the romantic Apple image and their rounded corners, but they do seem to have remarkable savvy.
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#7“The No. 1 thing consumers do on tablets is e-mail,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester analyst. “The No. 2 thing is look up stuff on the Web...."
Apple loves to tout sales numbers for the app store but this jibes with my own experience. It's nice to have a healthy stock of third-party apps to choose from but if your core email, web, & fb/twitter apps are solid you're 90% there for most users and can start chopping secondary features and specs to undercut the iPad.
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#8Maybe v2 will be webOS? One can dream, no?
Amazon's already invested a lot in the Android platform with the Amazon Appstore and all the other assorted Amazon Android apps. Considering that migrating to WebOS would require Amazon to:
(a) actually obtain the rights to WebOS (whereas Android they can just fork a version from git),
(b) retool all their existing app infrastructure to support WebOS, and
(c) promoting WebOS to developers when probably the only WebOS device that would be available to them would be the new Kindle and the fire-saled Touchpads,
I don't really see them moving to WebOS, or away from Android in general, anytime soon.
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#9“The No. 1 thing consumers do on tablets is e-mail,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester analyst. “The No. 2 thing is look up stuff on the Web...." Apple loves to tout sales numbers for the app store but this jibes with my own experience. It's nice to have a healthy stock of third-party apps to choose from but if your core email, web, & fb/twitter apps are solid you're 90% there for most users and can start chopping…
I mostly use my Touchpad for email. Some web browsing. Games for the kids. I plan to install android when I can though. All platforms have decent email experiences, web browsing on a tablet is actually highly overrated. Its really native apps that differentiate the experience, and its native apps that can be a joy to use.
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#10"We're trying to remove the barrier between 'I want that' and 'I have it'." - Sam Hall, Amazon's director of wireless products and service
I don't know about others, but my consumption of digital music from Amazon increased by about $20 a month within just a few weeks of them adding their Amazon Cloud Drive Player and their one-click purchase that dumps the album directly and instantaneously into the Cloud Drive.
With an Amazon tablet, I can see something similar happening for digital video.