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assault on the Tablet PC market comes with a twist

Wednesday, wars began tablet. Until then, everyone speaks of a "tablet market" was misleading. It was essentially a market iPad

After launching in April 2010 for a device that most people thought that there was no definite place, and then Apple to sell more than 30 million consumer products such incredibly expensive which reports that the margin of 40%.

were other pills, most of whom, with one notable exception - the Galaxy Tab - turkeys. However, until Wednesday, had not appeared that seemed to be able to license Apple Dent to print money.

The rival emerged from the expected source: Amazon. Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, charismatic founder of the company, the heat released Kindle, its first foray into the tablet market.

At this point, non-technical readers, clinging to their beloved Kindle, Amazon may object that has been on the market for Tablet PC since the Kindle was launched in 2007. However, the Kindle is not really a Tablet PC in any sense - is an information system that plays a role as well: go to the search and display ebooks

The prospect of the next battle between these two giants of technology has led some analysts to declare that excitable, which the company succeeds, "the consumer will win." Oh yeah? The reality is that both Apple and Amazon are the same: the consumer lock your system. Apple has done this with iTunes and the App Store, which ensures that one does not run on Apple iDevice has not been approved by the company. Amazon approach is only slightly more subtle. The fire comes with only 8 GB of memory, which means that most of the content that users will have access to storage in the Amazon cloud. In this sense, fire is the last network device.
But there's another twist. The fire also comes with a pretty slick browser that loads pages more quickly than even the browsers running on computers quickly. So 100 milliseconds (ms), the load times have been reduced to 5 ms. This is accomplished by having the treatment done, not by fire but by remote control of virtual machines running on Amazon EC2 cloud and intelligent caching and Preventive links chore. "It means," writes Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur well known, "if you're in the NYTimes.com, in its cloud and may already be in the device, over the next five pages, we will OK. They know, for the last five people to hit the home page of NYTimes.com s to open the pages. This type of cache services has many implications for privacy, as they are now sitting among you and your favorite porn site ... I mean the political activism site! not only a story of people who download URLs have the download size. "