Friday, September 09, 2011

7″ Media Tablets…”Dead On Arrival”? | TechPinions

Check the link below for some useful analysis (preview: definitely not DOA)

Last week, TechCrunch reported that Amazon’s 7" Kindle tablet was "very real" and would ship for the 2011 holidays.  Almost a year before that, the WSJ reported that "Steve Jobs declared the seven-inch tablet ‘dead on arrival.’" So the stage is set for an interesting war of beliefs and concepts this holiday shopping season.  In one corner, the world’s most trafficked internet retail stores and Kindle inventor, Amazon, and in the other, Apple, the most valuable company on the planet and inventor of the iPad.  Will the Amazon Kindle tablet be treated in the marketplace with very little respect or will it shock everyone like the original Kindle?  It really comes down to the basics of the consumer value proposition.

7″ Media Tablets…”Dead On Arrival”? | TechPinions

2 comments:

Richard Monson-Haefel said...

I think this entire analysis is invalidated by the assumption " I will also assume that each tablet has access to the same books, magazines, movies, videos, music and games. ".

What the author doesn't clearly understand is that its all about content. That said, of all the players out there Amazon.com has the best chance of competing on a content level. Still, with over 500,000 iOS applications, readers for iBooks, Nook, and Kindle; films through Netflixs its hard to see how Amazon.com will be able to compete until a stronger application ecosystem is built and they are not going to do that with their current Android Market - developer don't like the market because of lack of control over prices.

pbokelly said...

Thanks for sharing your comments -- I agree content is key, and believe Amazon is the only "content consumer"-focused player that has a chance to broadly compete with Apple for devices + content + more, at this point