Amazon's unreleased tablet is not expected to get in until Nov, but IT is already being pitted as the first rival to Apple's iPad. Analysts and pundits alike are placing their bets on Amazon, as other Android tablets failed to captivate much consumer interest. Only can Amazon get IT right where separate didn't succeed?
If Amazon plays to its strengths, the online retailer could have a hit connected its hands. The tablet reportedly runs along a so-known as forked version of Google's Android OS, which means that the user user interface on Amazon's pad of paper won't attend anything like the Android nearly users are companion with. Here are pentad other things Amazon needs to nail down to stand a fighting chance against the iPad.
Get the price right
Multitude want a less expensive pad of paper than Apple's $500 iPad, according to a view, and they're looking for Amazon to bear one. In the written report, almost fractional of those polled same that $300 was the price point that would bugger off them to look at an Android tablet over an iPad. The opportune news: Amazon is reportedly set to deal out its pad of paper for $250, hitting the pricing sweet spot.
Have a packed app store
Let's face it, Google's Honeycomb App Market excerption is quite fearful. The app survival of the fittest is limited, and once it grows, it could face the same malware and bogus app problems alike its smartphone counterpart. Amazon already has a solution for this in place: the Amazon Appstore for Humanoid. Amazon handpicks apps for its store, keeping the number of apps knock down, but the quality of them high. It's not same likely that Amazon would feature another app store, including Google's own, on its tablet.
Build a media store
Amazon River already has its possess e-book and euphony stores, too as a movie streaming service as start out of Amazon Choice. With wholly these services put in collaboration, Amazon would solve the problem of getting placid onto Android tablets (Google Music is beta and U.S.-only, and Netflix defend is uneven).
Use an easy payment service
As one of the biggest online retailers in the world, Amazon has a huge database of registered members and their credit card game linked to their accounts. Amazon also knows how to make the purchasing experience easy for the users (in a stark contrast to the puzzling mixed carrier billing and Google Checkout situation in the Android Market). By ligature your online account to the tablet, Amazon could allow one-tip shopping of music, apps, movies and books without besides much fuss.
Cause a cloud storage solution
If Amazon's pad of paper bequeath come American Samoa cheap as predicted, chances are you won't get too much on-display board repositing for your media, so it will postulate some sort of cloud storage solution, to which Amazon is no stranger to. The company's Dapple Drive gives you 5GB of free online storage for media and documents, which, if bumped equal to 10GB to 20GB, would give enough infinite for most users to salt away their files.
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