Having been an avid user of Amazon sometime back, I am certain they will ship millions of this things. The Amazon experience is just something to behold.

Amazon has also perfected the system for free/almost free shipping and does not need to spend gazillions on having physical retail stores like apple.

I won't be surprised if they sell millions of the tablet on the launch day.

But theirs basically is a content play which leaves me wondering whether they will be able to generate substantial profits from digital downloads alone while subsidizing the Kindle Fire.

Best,

John

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Brian L <lusiola@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Okech,
Look at this spanner in the works.
Samsung is now a micro$oft licensee.


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting view from Opera: Amazon's Silk Browser is Flattering, But
Five Years Late - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393786,00.asp

./Ok3ch

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Opera Turbo works majorly on the concept of proxy server. As for Silk, it's
> the same basic idea, but done with several improvements and optimizations
> for mobile devices. It's like saying "The iPhone is just a phone." its
> several things: cache, predictive cache, content optimization (image
> compression, etc.). A good amount of the content is pre-processed in the
> cloud rather than the browser.
> The only downside I see is that the optimisation is made for a specific
> platform: kindle fire.
> They even mentioned 'last mile' connection but since the Kindle Fire has no
> 3G. That's a major #FAIL  IMHO.
>
> ./bernard
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Kelvin <kjayanoris@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's revolutionary is the cloud-based browser: Silk.
>>> The cool thing about silk is "Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a
>>> dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which
>>> will execute remotely."
>>> The downside is that the browser works on Amazon's tablet Kindle
>>> fire...:-(
>>>
>>> ./bernard
>>
>> Is the browser really that revolutionary??
>> Isn't this how Opera Mini generally works?  Also, Opera Turbo on the PC
>> version of Opera.
>> Good move by Amazon all the same.
>>
>> Kelvin
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>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's revolutionary is the cloud-based browser: Silk.
>>> The cool thing about silk is "Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a
>>> dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which
>>> will execute remotely."
>>> The downside is that the browser works on Amazon's tablet Kindle
>>> fire...:-(
>>>
>>> ./bernard
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://youtu.be/_u7F_56WhHk
>>>>
>>>> ./bernard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> @Phares, yes insightful and true way of how things are going to be
>>>>> IMHO. Tablet front Amazon is going to be a big time player and phone
>>>>> front its gonna be Android (motorola+google??), iOS and Windows
>>>>> (Nokia+Microsoft). HTC better look for a place to fit in pretty soon!
>>>>>
>>>>> ./Ok3ch
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Am I the only one seeing the death of Samsung et al?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Samsung is screwed on the tablet front. Lawsuits from Apple and the
>>>>> > pricepoint on the Amazon tab mean their product will have a huge reduction
>>>>> > in sales. Lack of a datastore is also an issue. Apple has iCloud.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On the phone front, it will be a replay of WW1, with Google being the
>>>>> > untrustworthy party. Microsoft is going to be tightly integrated with Nokia
>>>>> > etc.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Speculation really... But worth a thought....
>>>>> > ------Original Message------
>>>>> > From: Josh Handley
>>>>> > Sender: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke
>>>>> > To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>>>>> > ReplyTo: Skunkworks Mailing List
>>>>> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Amazon Kindle Fire
>>>>> > Sent: 28 Sep 2011 21:24
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I think the coolest feature is not the hardware or the price but Silk
>>>>> > -
>>>>> > the cloud based web browser that uses Amazon EC2 as a giant
>>>>> > predictive
>>>>> > cache/optimizer.  Here is a short video that explains what it does:
>>>>> > http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazon-silk/
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The idea is that since everyone using the browser goes through the
>>>>> > Amazon cloud back end Amazon can gather enough data to predict which
>>>>> > page you will likely go to next so they can pre-fetch it before you
>>>>> > click on the link.  Not so sure how I feel about that from a privacy
>>>>> > perspective but from a business perspective having all that usage
>>>>> > data
>>>>> > sets them up to compete with likes of Google in some interesting
>>>>> > ways...
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Josh
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