Amazon expected to launch new tablet


The question is: What unique features can Amazon bundle into its tablet that might compel consumers to choose it over an iPad? There’s not that much an Amazon tablet could do that the iPad can’t.

The iPad can be used to read books from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, even if Apple’s restrictions now make it harder to buy books directly from these stores. It can be used for general shopping from Amazon.

The iPad plays movies and TV shows from Netflix and Hulu, and has access to tens of thousands of applications and games in the App Store.

On the application side, the Amazon tablet will start out at a big disadvantage, just like all the other iPad competitors. It might be able to run tablet apps from Google’s marketplace, but both the selection and quality is lower than in Apple’s store.

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