Amazon Kindle Fire More than Half Android Tablet Market, comScore Claims Discussion

[Jamison Cush]

The Amazon Kindle Fire now has more than half of the Android tablet market, according to market research firm comScore.

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[Ed Hardy]

This bad news for Google. It gives the Android OS to device makers for free, but makes money from the Android app store and from ads in third-party apps. I don't think it's getting anything of that kind from the Kindle Fire. So Google did all the hard work to make a tablet operating system, Amazon put a custom U.I. on it, and is raking in the cash.

Today's news means that a majority of people are choosing the Fire instead of regular Android tablets that Google does make money from.

Google's only hope is to put out a tablet in the same price range at the Fire, but running the full version of Android.
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[Jamison Cush]

Google's only hope is to put out a tablet in the same price range at the Fire, but running the full version of Android.
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And that's exactly what's happening. Samsung already has the $250 Galaxy Tab 2 in the market, and it blows away the Kindle spec for spec, and I think we'll see that long-rumored Google tablet within the next month or so, perhaps at Computex. Rumors have that sporting a quad-core processor and $200 pricetag.