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For amazon, the tablet is a also way to get many people to subscribe to prime. prime users buy 3x-4x than normal amazon users. So they might have better subsidy model than google.

The future opportunities in controlling digital content and mostly e-commerce are huge.Wal-mart size huge.New prime customers really help amazon fight for those opportunities. Losing a bit of money on tablets is just small investment, nothing more.




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