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They're solving the #1 aggravation issues that most new smartphone and tablet users have - slow connections. It's true this problem is also being solved by LTE

• roc 15y ago
  ... but Silk is being rolled out on a WiFi-only tablet. Most users won't ever have to worry about a crappy cell data connection. Some day, sure, they'll ship with 3G connections. But client hardware on future devices will only be faster and more capable. A SPDY-link to Amazon's private caching/compression network is a great win and differentiator. But why even open the can of worms that is two-tier _processing_? If they're leaving flash enabled on Silk, surely that dual-core chip is capable of keeping up with the bulk of browser rendering and js tasks.