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The company has been very careful to market the Kindle Fire not as a tablet, but as a Kindle device. It's an ebook reader, a magazine reader, a comic book reader, and a media player (for movies and music purchased through Amazon). There's a Web browser and you can buy apps (purchased through Amazon's store), but they aren't hyping it. While Apple says there's an app for whatever you want, Amazon is mostly hyping its built-in services, with little word on what additional software you can get for its tablet/Kindle.
Personally, I’ve never had much faith in HP’s ability to effectively manage Palm and webOS. Amazon, with its commitment to long-term planning and innovative consumer devices, seems like a much better fit. And in a way, it seems fitting for the company that released the first widely-available $200 tablet to snap up the company that made PDAs, the precursor to the smartphone, a phenomenon.
Amazon.com (NAS: AMZN) is reportedly in serious talks with Hewlett-Packard (NYS: HPQ) to acquire the webOS mobile operating system, which HP absorbed with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in April 2010 and scrapped last month.
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It’s called simply the “Amazon Kindle”. But it’s not like any Kindle you’ve seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And it runs Android.
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