It's interesting to see the parallels between Amazon's and Google's strategies: they both started as focused web services companies (ecommerce and searching respectively) and both branched into devices to help their services grow. The Kindle is for Amazon is what Android is for Google. I can't wait to see these strategies unfold more.
I just hope that the success of Apple, Amazon, Google and maybe Palm-in-the-future will teach executives in other companies to build up bigger and better software research.
