Hi Buzz Crew – Tom, in Episode 1187, you and Donald were trying to discern why Amazon and Apple seem so buddy-buddy about putting the Kindle reader and store in the iPad when it seems like the iPad is essentially a Kindle competitor. It occurred to me that Amazon may have concluded that developing and supporting hardware is not their core business – selling books is. They’ve done a good job of creating the appetite for their e-book product – which could not have been done without the Kindle device. The next step in their strategy may be to let Apple (and other hardware manufacturers) take over the device side while they focus on their core business. While Kindle fans may not be thrilled about this, the reality is that a choice between a single use Kindle or a multi-use iPad – at relatively