The latest Chitika statistics show Samsung gobbling up 55% of web traffic that Android devices generate in North America. No surprise. But what is intriguing is that Amazon generates the second largest chunk of web traffic. This means that on the strength of its Kindle tablets alone, Amazon muscles ahead of Motorola and HTC, even though these fading Android vendors both have wide ranges of smartphones. Amazon’s plan all along was to grab big enough a chunk of mobile content market to bootstrap a whole device operation into life. That plan is on track and may have surprising implications on the smartphone and tablet market in America in coming years. Now that Amazon has been able to reach a substantial



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