Things are starting to get
real, Techcrunch has the whole scoop. Biggest news, to me, seems to be the price tag - an impressive $250! Tailored to be a "cloud device" the "Amazon Kindle," as they're calling it, reportedly only has 6GB of on board storage, all powered by a single core chip. The software is built on an Android core, but is completely Amazon designed and refined - no Google App Store, just Amazon App Store. If the adoption of this is anywhere like the original Kindles this thing might be a major player in the Android space. I wonder what kind of repercussions that might have on fragmentation. The author of the piece makes it pretty clear that Amazon is going alone on this, no Google involvement at all. And the experience has been good, from his experience at least.
Furthermore I wonder if this will drive the price of the iPad down, but somehow I doubt it will.