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Seems weird to promote a (ok, not great) tablet by promoting how it works with Google Play. I've heard of Google Play, but rarely used it (except to download android apps). I certainly wouldn't consider "access to the huge Google Play library" to be a compelling advantage for a new piece of hardware.

Sell one thing at a time, don't try to sell a new tablet AND an as-yet-unsuccessful content platform at the same time, I think.

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Google Play is the rebranded Google Market app. This has been out for awhile now. This is not new to an Android user. "as-yet-unsuccessful" is a bit of a stretch.

Particularly right after they talk about 20B app-installs.

For apps, sure, but it's not a huge place for ebooks, video, music, etc.

Google has been selling content outside of apps for awhile now. Your comments seem to have a high degree of bias.

Mainly because I bought a Google TV.

Google Play is the app store. The fact that it has access to the app store is a selling point when you're competing with the Kindle Fire.

I'm tempted to say it's a selling point for the kindle fire. At least outside of apps.

Why are you tempted to say that?

The fact that the Nexus 7 has access to the Google Play store is a selling point for the Kindle Fire? Huh?

That's a strange thing to say.

Obviously this device will run the Kindle software too, so the whole Amazon library is available to you - in addition to the Google Play library & app store.

You can't sell a tablet without selling the ecosystem. Period. The availability of apps, content, etc - this is what matters to consumers.

Isn't that the position Kindle Fire took last year though?

Kindle already had a huge ebook ecosystem, and people bought dvd/music from Amazon (in physical media), so it was natural to think of them as a content store.

They seem to be positioning it as a kindle competitor.

If that's their intention, they want to show that they can match the amazon media ecosystem.

And they're matching the kindle fire's price, too, in case the media presentation and size wasn't clue enough.

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