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Amazon.com Challenging Apple for Tablet Market Leader; Special Report by Leading Financial e-Letter Investment Contrarians

(September 13, 2012)

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 13, 2012

In a recent Investment Contrarians article, financial expert George Leong reports that, in a recent court ruling, Apple was awarded just over $1.0 billion from Samsung Electronics after claiming that Samsungs smartphones and tablets look and feel like Apples iPhone and iPad. However, Apple now faces competition from Amazon.com, with its currently sold-out Kindle Fire. According to Leong, Apple may be poised to lose some of its market share.

Going forwardmarket competitors will be reluctant to make products similar in any way to those of Apple, notes Leong. However, he notes that Amazon.com is finding that Apples iPad tablet isnt necessarily the best, and that different could be better.

Leong points out that for Amazon.com, the ability to deliver a lower cost and smaller tablet that allows for frequent applications such as reading, surfing, and e-mail, appears to be picking up steam. According to Leongs stock analysis, Amazon.coms focus on the small tablet market was a good decision, rather than going head-to-head with Apple in the larger tablet market.

In addition, Leong reports that the small tablet market is seeing competition from the seven-inch Google Nexus 7 tablet running on Android, and the Nook tablet from Barnes & Noble.

Leong notes that Apple is the current tablet market leader with a global market share of around 69% in the second quarter. (Source: ABI Research.) But citing Visiongain, Leong reports that the global market for tablets is estimated to rise to around $31.9 billion this year with over 100 million units delivered.

With an ever-increasing market, Leong believes the tablet wars have just begunand Apple could soon lose market share.

To see the full article and to get a real contrarian perspective on investing and the economy, visit Investment Contrarians at http://www.investmentcontrarians.com.

Investment Contrarians is a daily financial e-letter dedicated to helping investors make money by going against the herd mentality.

The editors of Investment Contrarians believe the stock market and the economy have been propped up since 2009 by artificially low interest rates, never-ending government borrowing and an unprecedented expansion of our money supply. The official unemployment numbers do not reflect people who have given up looking for work and are thus skewed. They believe the official inflation numbers are also not reflective of todays reality of rising prices.

After a 25- to 30-year down cycle in interest rates, the Investment Contrarians editors expect rapid inflation caused by huge government debt and money printing will eventually start us on a new cycle of rising interest rates.

Investment Contrarians provides unbiased research. They are independent analysts who love to research and comment on the economy and investing. The e-newsletters parent company, Lombardi Publishing Corporation, has been in business since 1986. Combined, their economists and analysts have over 100 years of investment experience.

Find out where Investment Contrarians editors see the risks and opportunities for investors in 2012 at http://www.investmentcontrarians.com.

George Leong, B. Comm., one of the lead editorial contributors at Investment Contrarians, has just released, A Problem 23 Times Bigger Than Greece, a breakthrough video where George details the risk of an economy set to implode that is 23 times bigger than Greeces economy! To see the video, visit http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/press.

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9889107.htm.

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