Can someone explain to me how it is that iOS is a "walled garden" closed system, and yet I can buy kindle and B&N on my iPad. How is kindle more open, when all I get is Amazon or at least why doesn't anyone talk about it being an awful closed environment?

People are buying this thing because it's cheap, like a disposable camera. Try it and kick it into a drawer when/if you don't like it. I'll likely try one but I have several drawers full of shit I tried but never used.

It's less then half the price but half the size. Kindle is great for reading a book but surfing the web is hard enough on a 10 inch device. Can't imagine.

I love Amazon. 90+% of my online purchases go to them. But this is a dangerous gamble. If they don't get a huge bump in content sales, it could be financially very ugly for the company. I think they need to remember what their real business is. And, by the way how much content sales can they really expect from cheap-ass buyers?