For example, multi-tasking is good only on PC’s including laptops because of the ability to re-size windows and attach a large monitor if you choose; cutting and pasting are vastly superior with keyboards and mice.  These characteristics make them inherently much better at creating stuff (using multiple tools together).   

For content the Kindles are much lighter weight and smaller than iPads, which makes them more convenient (can hold them up and operate them easily with one hand; can also carry/keep in ordinary purse or pocket).  Early ads for iPads showed them on a lap, user reclining with ankle of one leg crossed over the opposite knee…soft sofa or chair.  Yup, fine for casual times at home if you want a beautiful good-sized screen, but with one-handed Kindle you can use the other for various purposes and also sit up straight. 

Why cameras on tablets?  Phones all have them these days anyway, and phones are the same size as most cameras anyway.

My money is now on Amazon because of their advanced implementation of cloud computing along with their device-independence for content consumption.  They will offer many devices (including 10 inch tablets) with different options and different but low prices and people will choose what they want to consume as they want it where they want it and how (including non-Amazon devices), all managed and synched via the cloud. 

And a reason for Apple maintaining price points is that Apple is a high margin business and the Street loves that.  As digital content revenues increase in scale for Apple that starts to eat (allbeit modestly) into their overall margins.  This is also the context for the 30% subscription levy.

Maybe to be a ereader and video&movies watch device is great! And want to know if all common format are supported, then I don’t need the Aneesoft video converter to do converting for my movies enjoy anymore.

If one is likely to buy digital content from Amazon, then maybe they’d buy other more expensive stuff as well. Isn’t that the genius of tying free video streaming to Amazon Prime?  And now the Kindle Fire (including Silk) just makes it even more frictionless for people to buy everything from Amazon. No slow-to-boot, sit-at-a-desk, maintenance-required PC needed.

Plus the Kindle will deter Apple from thinking about using its devices to someday growing into retail. And Silk will seek to hinder Google from using Chrome and Android to grow further into retail. If you didn’t think Apple and Google were thinking about it for the future, just think about what NFC, digital wallets/cash, and iTunes/Checkout/Wallet accounts is pointing to.

So low-cost digital content is being offered up by both Apple and Amazon as an enticement to get the consumer to buy something else.

The real losers in this are:

1. Other Android manufacturers who will not be able to compete with Amazon on price and still turn a profit. Hell, they’ve had a hard enough time matching Apple’s lowest price.

2. Google who’s been touting Honeycomb as THE Os for tablets only to have Amazon enter the game with a modded version of Android 2.2. How will this play out for Google’s Android plans when Amazon replaces the Nook (also using version 2.2) as the best selling Android tablet.