Good summary from Reuters on the current state of the tablet space. The clear message comes from analyst Mark Gerber:
The non-iPad tablets just won’t sell at retail. That’s the clear message from events over the past few days.
I am surprised by the statements on Amazon’s tablet running Honeycomb. Ice Cream Sandwich seems like the actual OS that would be worth running on tablets — but a native Amazon OS would be the preferred option. Something lightweight, like Chrome OS, that can just have springboard apps on top.