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Their profit isn't from the hardware sale, but from the media/apps thereafter.



It's an interesting model that makes them a real threat to both Apple and Android/WinRT based manufacturers. Cheap high quality tablets sold at cost with a great ecosystem behind it.

Of their competitors, only Apple both makes the hardware and has the ecosystem, and they will never beat Amazon on price.

They aren't going to take over the whole market, but I can see them getting a good sized chunk of it.




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