Amazon.com Android tablet business apps vs. iPad 3/HD

Amazon.com logo By (@richi ) - July 14, 2011.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is expected to launch an Android tablet soon. But it's not just for reading books; oh no, it'll also be a business tool, we're told. A Q3/Q4 release date would put it head-to-head with the expected iPad 3 (or HD). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers round up the rumors.

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Melissa J. Perenson reports:

A September or even early October introduction would be well-timed [for] the holiday shopping season. ... [It] could be the most asked-for stocking stuffer of 2011. [The timing] coincides with when arch-rival Apple plans to launch...potentially, a new, higher-resolution iPad.
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...[T]he company's CEO, Jeff Bezos, has indicated in the past that a tablet is its next frontier. And that makes perfect sense. ... Amazon and Apple are two behemoths each vying for consumers' digital media purchase dollars. ... Rumors put the screen at "roughly nine inches." ... The tablet will run Android, presumably Android 3.2.   M0RE


Cade Metz addz:

There's quite a rivalry developing between Amazon and Apple. ... Both are now selling digital music, videos, and books, and...Apple actually sued Amazon for calling its Android app store the Android Appstore.
It's nonsense of Jobsian proportions.   M0RE


Our old mate Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says what to expect:

...[H]ere’s what my sources have been telling me...people both inside Amazon and from Amazon’s partners. ... The Kindle Tablet is going to be made by Quanta. ... It will run Android Honeycomb 3.1. ... [I]t will have dual-core OMAP 4 (ARM Cortex A9) processors running at 1.5GHz [and] a solid-state drive (SSD).
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[B]esides having the usual collection of Android applications...[it] will also have serious business applications. ... I’m talking about interfaces to enterprise-level applications. ... I expect Amazon to price its tablet very aggressively. ... .   M0RE

      
Mark Sigal offers his thoughts:

Amazon is the only company with the media relationships and...billing relationship with consumers to directly challenge Apple. ...Amazon understands product discovery and recommendation even better than Apple does.
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...Amazon is also very well-positioned to outflank Google's play with Android. ... By better leveraging their installed base with Kindle; by building...tight integration with the Amazon Android App store and with Amazon Cloud Services; by...harnessing their recommendation services on both digital and physical goods.
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...[T]he market needs an integrated alternative to iOS...to keep Apple honest, and...because not enough developers are making serious coin. ...[T]here are legions of Android developers who...don't like having to support the compatibility matrix from hell...not to mention the fact that the Google model is all about free.   M0RE


Surprisingly, MG Siegler is pleased
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The fall is going to be very interesting. There’s a reason Apple wants to get another iPad out there before the end of the year.   M0RE


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Richi Jennings, your humble blogwatcherRichi Jennings is an independent analyst/consultant, specializing in blogging, email, and security. He's the creator and main author of Computerworld's IT Blogwatch -- for which he has won American Society of Business Publication Editors and Jesse H. Neal awards on behalf of Computerworld. He also writes The Long View for IDG Enterprise. A cross-functional IT geek since 1985, you can follow him as @richi on Twitter, pretend to be richij's friend on Facebook, or just use good old email: itbw@richij.com. You can also read Richi's full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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