Amazon's tablet to challenge Apple's iPad

Forrester Research says Amazon will launch a tablet this fall that will be the first serious challenger to the Apple iPad.

Forbes: Means Apple Should 'Prepare for War'
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/08/30/amazon-tablet-means-app...
Forrester Summary
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2011/08/29/amazon-will-be-tablet-produc...

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[doggod106]

Very cool I might subscribe but idk know much about what you do yet so ill wait till I've seen some more videos. Also I'm very happy amazon is releasing this hopefully its cheaper than the Ipad with improved features because they have the Ipad to go off so they already have an idea to improve.

[mickeleh]

@doggod106 Look at my past videos for a clue about what I do. I'd suggest "DVD Extras for The Catcher in the Rye," The series I did on 19th Century Lodon memes, my Farewell to Harry Potter, and my song titled Midnight. Oh, yes: and the series on Smell-o-vision.

[rgzdev]

What's your channel about anyway? Is it about clouds now?

[mickeleh]

@rgzdev I love that question. Been asking it since I signed up. Wish I knew the answer. I ramble a lot. I've done a lot of cloud videos this summer because a) there's a lot of news breaking on the topic—we're in the middle, well, towards the beginning of a major shift. b) I'm getting a lot of requests to do more.

Another topic I'm getting requests for is vlogging about YouTube. Rather recursive, but I'm going to do that.

I have a few non-cloudy topics in the works.

[mickeleh]

@rgzdev BTW... what do you think my channel should be about?

[ChiCubs4012]

Last time you promised another video soon we got the butter shave:)

[mickeleh]

@ChiCubs4012 Are you saying you didn't like the Butter Shave?

[TirlaStar]

I'm loving these videos, it is very hard to find tech news put across in such consise and interesting ways. I'm glad you are updating more regularly again, it makes me very happy! dftba x

[mickeleh]

@elorfinthendt It isn't?

[beancube2010]

Magazine tablets will be the next trend. Publishers without partnering with online technologies such as texting, chat, don't lead to the future and are proved to be short sighted both backward and forward of time. Publishing has meaning only the readers and audiences working on their items. Current monopoly mass media anchors without audiences' dynamic, in depth, participating on an article, don't have credibility and their works lack interactive horizon. How about magazine phone-netbooks?

[bfsaol]

@SuperTruth77 You're brother seems a little crazy, in my view, lol! Technology is just about getting to be ok these days. Microsoft and Apple trotted out revised versions of the same operating systems annually and hailed this as the pinnacle of achievement in their field, which it wasn't.

Eejits queued in the rain for it!

There is more competition in the operating system sector . It will drive computing to a new era of convenience,reliability, low-cost and functionality, where it must go

[CheekTV]

oooh I hope their tablet is as beautiful :D

[Scarlet1604]

For Christ's sake, no more Libya...............

[rgzdev]

@mickeleh I dunno I came here for some political commentary on the elections I think. If you don't know what to make a channel about here is an idea, to get material that is current. Comment on the news. OK everybody does it but you can give your own take. An angle you could take is taking a current event and tell us things about it that aren't always in the news.

For instance, there is a war in Libya right now. Who started it? Why? What is he going to do when it's over?

Cheers.

[evensgrey]

As long as Amazon doesn't try to do the kind of insanity with the trying to lock down the device so that their store is the ONLY way to load apps the way Apple did, they could really kick Apple's ass on this. How many times do you think a small development house (where most of the really interesting stuff tends to come from) is going to go through Apple's hoops and get shot down AFTER spending all the money before they write it off?

[SeerSucker1981]

I never care about any of this stuff. Seriously, I just dont care. But Mickeleh makes it interesting somehow, and for the first time in my life I'm paying attention to this technology "news", etc.

[SuperTruth77]

My brother thinks modern gadgetry is so cool that he’s founded a new ‘faith’ of tech worship, & is campaigning to have it recognised as an official religion.

The central idea is that technology has provided us with so much high-performing stuff that “mere humanity” is poor-quality & unreliable by comparison. We should therefore ditch the concept of human interaction unless strictly necessary- e.g. all breeding to be IVF with sexual desires met by porn, prostitution & ‘sex exchange bars’.

[Ingen1ous]

Dead

[jeremyshaw]

Very interesting breaking news report, Mickeleh! I look forward to seeing your next video. Awesome shirt and it would have been perfect for all of the cloud videos you've done and will be perfect for whatever ones you will do next!