The Kindle Fire made its big debut this week as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the tablet along with other new members of the Kindle family on Wednesday. The Fire’s been touted as a challenger to the Apple iPad, but the real threat to Apple’s iconic tablet may come from the Silk browser that will run on the Fire. Built from the ground up to leverage the Amazon Web Services cloud, Silk will make it much easier for customers to make purchases on Amazon.com and for the online retail giant to upsell aggressively.
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The Kindle Fire's Browser: Mostly Smooth as Silk
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 30, 2011 05:00 AMThe Kindle Fire made its big debut this week as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the tablet along with other new members of the Kindle family on Wednesday. The Fire’s been touted as a challenger to the Apple iPad, but the real threat to Apple’s iconic tablet may come from the Silk browser that will run on the Fire. Built from the ground up to leverage the Amazon Web Services cloud, Silk will make it much easier for customers to make purchases on Amazon.com and for the online retail giant to upsell aggressively.