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Amazon has shown that they're open to pivots and trying new things before. I wouldn't be surprised if they made two different lines of Kindles, with different OS's. They are trying to achieve market dominance with the Amazon App Store—with WebOS they could truly achieve market dominance since they'd be the main source of apps.

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But the Kindle Fire is supposed to be an appliance. It's supposed to Just Work. Adding a second tablet with a different OS would confuse Amazon's target audience.

So where are there 5 different Kindle products?

It's still very clear what you're getting with each Kindle product.

Kindle DX has a massive screen, Kindle Keyboard has a keyboard, Kindle Touch has a touch screen, Kindle has buttons, Kindle Fire is a tablet.

And then there's the 3G and Wi-Fi splits, but that's also an obvious feature.

…try explaining this to my mother.

* Cheap Kindle (sans touch)

* Kindle (touch)

* Kindle that doesn't need wifi (touch 3G)

* Old Kindle that they need to sell off (w/ keyboard)

* Kindle w/ video + web + games (Fire)

there are two different kindle products - the e-ink kindle and the kindle fire. the e-ink kindle has a few different revisions with different input and connectivity methods, but in the end it is all the same functionality: the ability to read books, shop in the kindle store, and nothing else.

I got this e-mail from Amazon today: http://cl.ly/1O1F2Y1X3n2A3W260r2s

It looks like there are quite a few Kindles, and Amazon isn't afraid to differentiate.

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