The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is pretty much what we predicted it would be: a $199 loss leader to draw buyers into the Amazon jungle. The iStore sales model has caught fire and we'll be seeing lots of innovative companies following the model. Until the next uber-money making model comes along, that is.
MSFT made a bazillion dollars with the WinTel duopoly and selling very high priced software suites. Other companies tried to follow the model and failed. Who were they? How about Novell, Corel, IBM/Lotus and many others.
The new money making scheme is, of course, APPS!!! The iFruit company has made bazillions with the model and Google is following suit. MSFT will be "innovating" once again, at some point in the distant future, by making apps part of WinNext.
Other prognosticators are saying that the new Amazon products will kill all other Tablets. Nonsense. Yes, there will be a lot of buyers for the new Kindles and I hope they all enjoy their bargain. But there will always be people who buy with their head and they will see through the fraud.
Long live real innovation and open software. I LOVE Android Tablets but hate companies that try to force you into their tightly controlled little universe.
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