@KronJohn
Did you even read the article? This does not affect the iPad (as predicted), but instead will kill the other Honeycomb tablet market trying to compete with Apple offering premium pricing. Amazon and Apple have what most of these tablet OEM need, and that is a content ecosystem (Curated Apps Store, music store, movies, TV shows, Audiobooks, eBooks, games, Cloud syncing and storage, all tied to the same one-click account). Apple will control the high end market and Amazon will eat-up the lower end. Apple at anytime can match Amazon's pricing and make it up with the increased shipment, but they don't need to. That will just offset their entire product line (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPods will also need to be lowered). This again will affect the others trying to compete with Apple but lacks the Apple-like ecosystem. Rim, Samsung, Toshiba, Acer........
This two way threat of Apple and Amazon may also affect Microsoft's Windows 8 premium tablet plans a year from now.
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