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> They've got to be selling it on the basis of tablet-like apps.

Mom 'n' pop users don't care about "apps". They want books, email, web browsing, music, free streaming movies, and whatever silly game is popular at the moment (Angry Birds, Sudoku, and Bejeweled). A Kindle tablet can do all of these.



Against the baseline of an existing Kindle, email, web browsing, music, movies and Angry Birds are all apps.


Existing Kindles have email, web browsing, music, and games. True, there are limitations. Movies are the only "new" thing.


You can't seriously use any of them though, it's far to slow for that.

You buy a Kindle because you want to read books, if you really wanted all those other features you would buy an iPad which is actually good at them.


Actually, the music player is fine. It's just like an iPod shuffle. They just didn't bother to put any features in it.




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