Episode 36: 36: Wedge

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon's new tablets, the Google technologies and Amazon cloud services that stand behind them, and what making money by "selling the blades" implies about Amazon's ability to compete with Apple's approach of "selling the razors." Also, predictions for October's Apple event, and (briefly) Fringe. Links for this episode:Apple Thunderbolt Display Teardown - iFixitThe case against the Kindle as a low end tablet disruption - AsymcoAmazon Kindle Press Conference - YouTubeMagma ExpressBox 3T gives you 3 external PCIe slots over Thunderbolt - EngadgetBelkin Reveals New Thunderbolt Express Dock - MacStoriesSPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - GoogleAmazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will it click Buy? - VentureBeatMacintosh Classic - WikipediaThe Talk Show #61, where John Gruber makes his iPhone predictionsThe Incomparable - 5by5Geek Friday - Listen to understand the references to FaithSponsored by Sourcebits and Sifter.