Competing Tablets

Alistair Barr on the purpose of Amazon Tablets:

Amazon is making its own tablets to help the company sell more digital goods, such as MP3s, movies, TV shows, apps and games. Physical versions of these products, such as CDs and DVDs, were a big business for Amazon, but they are now in decline.

Hardware is a secondary concern for Amazon, like it is for Google. The tablet doesn't matter nearly as much as what it can be used to sell. In Amazon's case that's stuff - to us. In Google's case it's us, to advertisers. But if their ends are important and the tablet is the vehicle being used to deliver those ends... I'd want a nice car.