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Amazon has been stepping in Apple's tracks recently. Company CEO Jeff Bezos has been hailed in the past month by many as the heir apparent to the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs as the world's reigning innovative tech leader. Amazon is also successfully going after Apple's industry-leading iPad tablet with its new, lower-priced Kindle Fire tablet. Not to mention that Amazon is pushing hard against Apple's content distribution model with more content of its own.

Because the Amazon Kindle Fire's low price of $199 makes it more accessible than its competitors, ZDNet's Jason Perlow called it the People's Tablet. But early experiences indicate the tablet, available for sale in stores such as Best Buy this week, is not all that great as a reader.

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