Amazon introduces its Fire tablet and more importantly, it’s Silk browser. Why is the browser more important? It’s the way most people now interact with technology. Period. Marc Andreesen was a genius (so was Eric Bina). Case in point – the Palm was a horrible device (yes, it should only be referred to in the past tense) because its browser was terrible. Likewise, the Blackberry browser is nothing to behold. Apple took a bold step when it introduced full browsers on its iOS device. People use browsers daily. Manufacturers please note: if you release a general purpose computing device and the browser stinks, it will fail.
Kudos to Amazon for “getting it.”