@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...
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