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I seriously doubt most vendors care to compete with Amazon on price. Amazon makes all of their money from locking you into their services and platforms. That's
by ktsmith 14y ago
I seriously doubt most vendors care to compete with Amazon on price. Amazon makes all of their money from locking you into their services and platforms. That's not something other tablet vendors can do. Apple doesn't need to compete on price due to the size of their ecosystem and the quality of their products. That leaves Google which did something similar to Amazon with the Nexus 7 but can't necessarily continue that trend without damaging relationships with their hardware partners (All the OEMs currently making tablets).
- sliverstorm 14y agoPlease, lock-in? I have seen very little to indicate they are trying to create lock-in. They do have the DRM on e-books, but if they are to be believed, it's demanded by the publishers.
- jskopek 14y agoI highly doubt you'll see the Kobo bookstore on the Amazon marketplace; that's lock-in
- ricardobeat 14y agoiOS is much more of a walled garden, yet you have Kobo, Amazon & others living alongside iTunes/iBooks.
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- jonknee 14y agoWhy didn't you take the 30 seconds and check? It's very much on the Amazon marketplace and works fine on the Kindle Fire. http://www.amazon.com/Kobo-Inc-eBooks/dp/B004SIEZ8I/ http://www.amazon.com/Kobo-Inc-eBooks/dp/B004SIEZ8I/
- ineedtosleep 14y agoDoesn't the Fire (and supposedly the new Fires as well), only have the Amazon App Store and don't officially work with Play? And from what I've used on the phone version of the Amazon App Store, your app is tied to that app. If you uninstall the App Store, your app will break. So yes, I believe that is a case for lock-in.
- jonknee 14y agoIt's up to Google to allow Play. It's part of the non-open portion of Android along with stuff like Google Maps.
- Xuzz 14y agoThat's more likely because Google won't let them add it, not because Amazon wants to block it. Google Play is a proprietary service and they like to use it a a threat to force OEMs to cooperate. I don't see Google allowing it on a heavily customized OS that's barely "Android" at all.
- bovik 14y agoThe extra USD 200 for the 4G model are not all about hardware you know. I doubt 4G chipset and the 32GB flash chips are costing that much.