Apple knows what the future holds, and that future makes Apple quiver in fear. Somewhere in Washington, a band of Amazonians are methodically piecing together the ultimate iKiller, a tablet that will become the first legitimate threat to Apple’s dominance atop the tablet heap.
Amazon’s long-rumored tablet is apparently in its final stages. If a report written by TechCrunch’s MG Siegler is true, Amazon is on the verge of releasing a 7-inch Android-based tablet just in time for the holiday season. The tablet apparently looks similar to the BlackBerry Playbook, runs a custom OS forked from Android 2.2, has a single-core processor and no cameras. From a spec standpoint, it’s definitely nothing to get excited about. But within the context of a robust ecosystem an insanely undercut price, specifications begin to lose their luster.
Some may scoff at the single core processor and the lack of cameras and easily dismiss the tablet as a fail, a marketing ploy, an attempt to capitalize on retail. That would be incredibly shortsighted. We could digress into a lengthy discussion, debating the virtues of dual cores and cameras, but it would detract from one of the main things that gives Apple reason to shiver: Amazon’s wonderfully fully-featured ecosystem.
What do you guys think will the Amazon tablet (AKA Kindle) put an end to the iPad Success ?
(via Tech Crunch )
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