  Yeah, I don't see how the Android tablet makers are going to make money, Apple won't worry too much as people who want iPads are probably still going to buy iPads.  Amazon's only liability is that their business model limits the Fire's availability & distribution.... at least until they can make their way through the tangled labyrinth of international media rights.  If - or rather when - they do address that, I think they're going to commandeer the Android tablet market much in the way Samsung commandeered the Android smartphone market, if not more so. Between the Fire and W0/RT, Google-sanctioned Android on tablets may well find itself in a tough place.  I do think the new line of Fires put a lot more pricing pressure on Apple than last year. The Fires are more media-centric, but Whispersync for games + parental controls + a new bundled e-mail client make them a bit more competitive with iPads.  Except Samsung could lose it overnight really. nothing really holding them there. Amazon has price as their big thing, and Amazon content.  A