Amazon’s Alexa Tablets are coming for the iPad
The Verge David Pierce ● Covered by 2 sources
Amazon is launching “Alexa Tablets,” a new tablet lineup positioned around Alexa with full Google Play-supported Android. Amazon previously used the Fire name for tablets for 15 years, and this launch drops that naming in favor of Alexa. The change is that the new tablets run Android with access to standard Android apps rather than Amazon’s older Fire-style tablet software approach.
Why it matters
Amazon is launching a new lineup of tablets that bear almost no resemblance to any tablet Amazon has ever launched before. They're not even called Fire, the name Amazon has used for its tablets for the last 15 years. They're called Alexa Tablets, and they're designed to do two things: bring Alexa Plus to the […]