Fire from Amazon
I think the newly announced Amazon Kindle Fire will have an impact on the tablet market, but I’m not sure it will seriously impact the iPad …
While the Kindle Fire has many less features, it seems that Amazon has an excellent design AND implementation – in direct contrast to all previously released “iPad competitors” that appear to want to fail by unreleasing unready products.
At the below $200 price point, there will be many new owners of tablets this year – but there will still be many that want the larger more featured iPad. The losers here will surely be all those other Samsung/Motorola/Blackberry/etc tablets – they had to compete with a fabulous $500 device, now they also have to compete with a $200 price point.
I can’t imagine anyone now being happy with an unsupported $100 HP tablet when for $200 you can get the support and backing of Amazon …