No, I have not. I see nothing except unsubstantiated rumors in those articles. Nothing there negates what I wrote about the Amazon Fire TV. . . and the laying off of engineers from Amazon. YOU confabulated it into Tablets, not me. I said nothing about their Kindle Tablets and e-Readers. YOU brought that into the discussion. I still think that Amazon will not be engineering their own products when they can buy an off the shelf reference product, slap their name and stick in their Amazon Forked Android on it ALL without having to engineer it themselves. Otherwise, why are they laying off their engineers?
This is what RETAILERS DO, Mad Dawgg. They buy products, put their names on them, and resell them. There's nothing new here.
Google did it with the Nexus. Montgomery Wards and Sears both sold the same Stevens and H&R .22 rifles, just with different store brand names. There is nothing new under the sun.
And yet again you are wrong: Your words from post 84 "It indicates a major re-allignment in Amazon's plans to concentrate on their core competency, retail, not developing hardware."
Unless you can convince us somehow that kindles and fire tablets and fire TVs are not "hardware" then you are proved wrong once again.
So you brought in the tablets and everything else with your FUD comment that Amazon is getting out of the hardware business.
And that my friend is once again:
game...
set...
and match...!