People who buy this tablet won't care about that. They are not buying an "Android Tablet", they are buying an Amazon tablet.
They will consume the software that Amazon makes available for it. It does not compete with the iPad, nor with general purpose Android tablets. It is an Amazon appliance, custom built to deliver no more and no less than what Amazon provides for it.
I completely agree. The Amazon tablet in all likelihood will be positioned with respect to Android in much the same way OS X is positioned with respect to BSD. It's what's under the hood, but it won't be what you actually see when you use it.
It's not entirely clear to me what Amazon's planning for their tablet capabilities. A report out today confirms that Amazon is in the process of a complete rework of it's website to optimize it for tablets. The changes and improvements "will emphasize things like Instant Video, MP3s, Cloud Player, Kindle, Cloud Drive, Android apps and audio books".
That's absurd. Let's say Amazon addressed all the complaints here:
- Access to Android store
- Dual core processor
- More storage
- eInk rather than LCD
and so on
How would that make it look any more like an iPad?
In fact, your point simply shows that Amazon's tablet proves that it IS possible to make a tablet that looks nothing like an iPad.
really? because we have NO idea how this looks. All we have are renders (which is the Blackberry Playbook with a new UI)
And considering that Apple said that a 7 inch tab was so similar to an ipad that an INFORMED user couldn't tell the difference, it appears that their definition of "informed" is something along the lines of a luddite with perception issues.
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People who buy this tablet won't care about that. They are not buying an "Android Tablet", they are buying an Amazon tablet.
They will consume the software that Amazon makes available for it. It does not compete with the iPad, nor with general purpose Android tablets. It is an Amazon appliance, custom built to deliver no more and no less than what Amazon provides for it.
I completely agree. The Amazon tablet in all likelihood will be positioned with respect to Android in much the same way OS X is positioned with respect to BSD. It's what's under the hood, but it won't be what you actually see when you use it.
http://mashable.com/2011/09/04/amazon-redesign/
That's absurd. Let's say Amazon addressed all the complaints here:
- Access to Android store
- Dual core processor
- More storage
- eInk rather than LCD
and so on
How would that make it look any more like an iPad?
In fact, your point simply shows that Amazon's tablet proves that it IS possible to make a tablet that looks nothing like an iPad.
really? because we have NO idea how this looks. All we have are renders (which is the Blackberry Playbook with a new UI)
And considering that Apple said that a 7 inch tab was so similar to an ipad that an INFORMED user couldn't tell the difference, it appears that their definition of "informed" is something along the lines of a luddite with perception issues.