Steve Jobs has run amok again. This happens every few years in the tech industry. First he did it with the Macintosh. Then with the iPhone. Now, with the iPad, Jobs is gobbling up business like bear let loose in a peanut butter factory. If someone doesn’t stop him, quick, he’s going to do to the tablet market what he did with digital media players: own it.
Well it looks like Amazon Chief Jeff Bezos is prepping some tranquilizer darts and a ketch-all pole. Jeff Bezos, who plans to drop four million tablets into the market in 2011 to fight it out with Apple, Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes reported Wednesday. The report, which cited unnamed Taiwainese components makers says Amazon will use processors from Texas Instruments and touch panels from WinTech. The tablets will be assembled by Quanta Computer.
In short, Amazon will be reaching its hands into the same bag of parts available to everyone else. Software and services will have to set this device apart. Sadly, the people responsible for those things aren’t talking to Digitimes. But a glance at Amazon’s efforts to build digital media and software stores for Android devices provides a few clues about where Bezos could be going.
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