Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: Sales Estimates for Amazon's Linux-based Tablets

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

____/ 7 on Sunday 20 Nov 2011 11:34 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>> 
>> Amazon Kindle Fire shipments upped to 6 million in quarter
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | A market research firm has boosted its projection for Kindle Fire
>> | shipments in the current quarter, as the Amazon tablet is proving to be
>> | one of the hottest consumer devices this holiday season.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57327907-64/amazon-kindle-fire-shipments-upped-to-6-million-in-quarter/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
> 
> 
> Amazon makes tons of money from Linux.
> 
> Any company can make similar amounts of money
> making and selling Linux gadgets.
> 
> Linux is free to download, use and make money with.
> http://www.distrowatch.com
> http://www.livecdlist.com
> 
> Amazon now moves to develop and sell an android mobile phone
> and make tons of money selling those devices and customized apps
> to buy their books online through the mobile phones.
> 
> Since X is running on Android distro, if I were Amazon management, I'd
> ask the engineers to put X as standard on all tablets and phones
> and then to log into Linux machines, tablets, and other Linux
> gadgets that has X to be able to continue their reading or their media
> consumption on a different device from where they left off in their
> original device. Its a no fuss, no mess approach to transferring
> client desktops from one machine to the next without having
> to explicitly transfer files, settings and read positions
> from one environment to another.

Amazon permits  rooting of this machine, so you could practically
install anything on it.

- -- 
		~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz, Research Fellow
http://Schestowitz.com  | GNU/Linux administration | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Editor @ http://techrights.org & Broadcaster @ http://bytesmedia.co.uk/
Managing partner @ http://scifitness.co.uk & http://iuron.com
GPL-licensed 3-D Othello @ http://othellomaster.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAk7JNR8ACgkQU4xAY3RXLo4d2gCeMp7Q32uETkdr43g+ttsF+Ykl
iF0An3b+Lq8t3Lo40U6b4OF9+0H+GFvU
=/+19
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index