I will also take bets that Apple, despite Jobs's pronouncement that he would never sell a tablet of that size, will reconsider and do so at some point the value proposition is too obvious. That's why I believe Amazon is doing the right thing with its first tablet by keeping it small, especially given that Amazon's major goal is to have customers use it as a media consumption device, which also runs Android games and other apps. (The Android operating system needs updating, yet Samsung and its telecom partner for the one I bought, T-Mobile, have declined to provide the update – a classic demonstration of vendor contempt for customers.) The Tab, still relatively expensive, was grossly overpriced at the time I bought it – curse of the early adopter – but it's still working well enough for now.įor my purposes, the 7-inch size is ideal. It has a camera and microphone I hardly ever use. It has become my main mobile media device, for getting news, reading books (including Kindle files), and watching movies in particular, plus as an occasional email and social-media connector. Not quite a year ago, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab with a 7-inch screen. I haven't gotten my hands on the Fire, but I have no immediate plans to buy one. The market, at least for the time being, is bifurcating between the luxury models (iPad and, in distant runner-up position, high-end Android tablets), which can do many things well, and utilitarian models (such as Fire, running a modified version of Google's Android, and a number of other, pure-Android devices), which are intended mainly as media-consuming devices. But it's by far the most important, for what it says about the tablet marketplace. The Fire is just one of several devices Amazon announced at a New York event. It's smaller, much less capable in terms of features and hardware – and 60% cheaper. Indeed, the Fire, Amazon's first effort in this genre, is plainly not intended to compete head-to-head with the iPad.
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