How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Google to School

Re:How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Googl... by drivebyacct2 on Friday July 13, 2012 @05:10PM (#4241937)

And at least with the Kindle Fire it made sense because it could be focused on the book reading aspect of Kindle and provide a better experience than stock Android + stock Kindle.apk.

Now Google has a decent e-book offering, a solid, similarly sized tablet and there really isn't as large of an "Amazon media" leverage advantage with a phone offering (specifically because of the form factor, that is).

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Re:How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Googl... by ddw on Saturday July 14, 2012 @12:50AM (#4243162)

My wife (not tech savvy) is in the market for a cheap tablet. I compared the Fire vs. the Nexus 7 with her tonight. She's only remotely thinking about the Fire because we have Amazon Instant w/ Prime. I'm trying to persuade her to go w/ the Nexus 7 so that it'll at least last for a while.

I think the hardware and services have flattened out enough that the only thing that matters anymore is the OS. And Google is winning that race against Amazon.

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