Monday, September 26, 2011

Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from a preview of the anticipated Amazon tablet/slate

All that makes Amazon “a nasty competitor,” Ms. Epps wrote in a recent report, and leaves Apple vulnerable among those who want a tablet solely for entertainment and not for professional uses. Since that is about two-thirds of tablet users, Apple’s product strategists will finally have to take a competitor seriously, she concluded.

Apple is not the only vulnerable one. The Amazon tablet will sell for the same price and offer many of the same things as Barnes & Noble’s successful color Nook e-reader. The once-mighty book retailer is staking its future on making the transformation to digital; otherwise it will end up like its one-time competitor Borders, now vanquished.

Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad - NYTimes.com

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