Ever since the iPad's acclaimed debut last year, the search has been on for a worthy challenger to Apple's tablet juggernaut, which has sold some 29 million units to date. The wait may at last be over. On Monday, analyst Sarah Rotman Epps suggested that Amazon could soon shake up the tablet market and end Apple's dominance by releasing a not-yet-announced tablet for under $300. Such a tablet could sell as many as 5 million units in the fourth quarter, Epps predicts. Really?
Nope. This is unfounded speculation: This is "yet another round of tech headlines so clearly penned by Apple-hating geeks who will do and say and write anything in the hopes of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy," says Timmy Falcon at Beatweek Magazine. The Amazon tablet doesn't even exist yet, and there's no real evidence that it could be a serious challenger to the iPad. Sure, Amazon could afford to sell tablets at a loss, what with all its Kindle book sales, but it would have to practically give its tablets away to topple Apple.
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