Will the Amazon Tablet Be Right for Business?

25.05.2011

But Amazon also has its cloud drive service and app. To date, this again is mostly for content consumption, but Amazon and Google could easily streamline these services to enable easy access to Google Docs and other cloud-based applications through an Amazon tablet.

The Kindle also has been a good platform for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and --and with the addition of the cloud, an Amazon tablet could enable workers to publish reports and share documents. The Kindle has limited business applications, whereas a tablet would remain a consumption device yet cross over to the business user. It isn't hard to see Amazon wanting to get into the tablet space, because the future is going to be about a lot more than reading books on a screen.

Peter Suciu writes about technology trends for small business, but has an appreciation for the Victorian Age when the telegraph was the information superhighway. After living in New York City for 18 years, he now resides in more rural Michigan.