Amazon uses Black Friday to aggressively push its own hardware brands, often slashing their prices to cost or even below to sacrifice profit margins for the sake of market share and locking customers into the Amazon ecosystem.

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Fire Max 11 has the most advanced and refined hardware of any Amazon tablet yet. But it is held back by the same old problems. If you buy something from a Verge link ...

Amazon AMZN rolled out an advanced tablet, namely Fire Max 11, in a bid to strengthen its tablet offerings. The tablet, priced at $229.99, features an 11-inch display, a slim aluminum design, a fast octa-core processor with 4GB of RAM, and up to 128GB of ...

These are the best Black Friday deals on tablets, and we should know, because we've reviewed hundreds of them over the last 15 years. Score the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for 52% off.

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