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This ties in well with the game streaming service they bought - and why they were pulling OnLive coupons out of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (still inexcusible, IMO).Well, speaking of tablets.. I was surprised to see this announcement today that Gamestop is going to start selling Android tablets, as well as iPads and iPods. They're expected to begin stocking them prior to the start of the holiday season.
I knew they were accepting iOS devices for trade-in (cool, now they can offer kids $2.50 for a $300 iPod instead of a $60 game!) but had missed the selling used devices thing.
Do they actually bother with a disclaimer?All tablets will include a disclaimer that the box may have been opened by a Gamestop employee prior to purchase.
While I love me some Android, I have to be honest that the only Android tablet I see potentially doing well is the rumored Amazon one. Android really needs a breakthrough tablet to spur development, particularly game development, and to do that I think someone's going to need to take a loss on the hardware. Amazon is rumored to be doing just that with theirs. They're the only ones other than Google that have a market (and until very recently Google didn't own any hardware tablet hardware production ends) so they're in a position where they can lose money on the hardware to potentially make it up elsewhere. Plus they have a good brand name and have sold a lot of Kindles.
I agree - but for a different reason. Amazon is going 'low end' - it will not compete with the 'spec war' tablets in any way - heavily 'forked' pre-Froyo OS without ANYTHING Google visible or available, a relatively low-end hardware spec without 3G, GPS, etc, and very much an Amazon-forward experience. That said, if it comes with free Amazon Prime as rumored I am in - will save me $79 a year
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