According to the reports from TechCrunch the new Amazon tablet is based on Android 2.2 and Amazon have forked the OS to make it very much their own. There is no Android market on this tablet apparently, and that would mean very little in the way of music applications unless Amazon decided to put them on via their own app store. I guess that this is possible.
My guess is that Amazon want this to be an iPad competitor, and as such are aiming it at the core tablet buying public and not at us. That's fine. Understandable, but also misses a trick in a big way.
It's a shame, I can't really get my head around what Amazon are trying to achieve with this device, but perhaps I'll understand more when it debuts.
Anyway, have a listen to the podcast for even more about the Amazon tablet, and of course, lots lots more.
6 comments:
The 1st Kindle was better (than this latest Amazon offering), because it had a better screen. Better even I think than the iPad.
Unfortunately the OS will never match that of iOS, even if the marketing tells you otherwise.
As always, Apple products will be for Creationists and doodlers/fiddlers/bards.
The rest of the pc players will focus on the Consumerists.
Readers/watchers who want to mostly consume the content.
There are all kinds and categories of consumers and i think amazon tablet will be a big hit there.
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The Amazon tablet is going to fail the same way the Palm Tablet did. Nobody needs another Android clone.
I assume any new non-iOS tablet or phone won't be for mobile music.
geez again we're using the jump-to-conclusions mat without much info.
For all I know it might suck. But maybe they're addressing responsiveness/latency in their fork and coupling the OS more closely to their hardware?
There will also almost undoubtedly be the amazon app store, and I think if caustic, nanoloop, g-stomper (and other) creators see a market worth tapping it's not that difficult to have their apps cross-listed there.
If anything, they have a strong incentive to make their fork a killer platform because it's the only way the amazon app store will be competitive, and there's a whole lot of potential revenue to be scraping off the top if they're the ones controlling the app store.
Who knows? At any rate it seems like a hell of a lot of inference from "there will be an OS fork and they want to promote their own app store".
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