Next month, Amazon will launch its first PC-like product with a version of the Amazon Fire tablet bundled with a keyboard; it includes one-year of Microsoft Office 365 use. At a price well below $300, this product provides an interesting alternative to offerings like the iPad Pro and Surface Go, both of which are more expensive.
This new Fire Tablet 10+ has things like wireless charging that low-end products often donât get and it comes preloaded with Amazonâs core offerings and access to a curated app store with a subsection of Android apps.
But, if you put the Microsoft Virtual Desktop on the device and connected it to a robust cloud solution like, oh, I donât know, AWS, and then you provided more extensive screen offerings, Amazon could jump early to where everyone else seems to be going: the Virtual Desktop. And, because they have no PC installed base, this move wouldnât put any existing products for Amazon or current customers at risk.