@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....
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> 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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