The problem with that line of thinking is that you can pretty much always say that. The tech is never going to stop evolving this fast, if anything its going to speed up. Amazon is taking a loss right now on the Fire to get their foot in the door and sell movies/books through their closed system. Its a great time to purchase one, especially if you know how to root it and get the regular Android Market on it.Not really. For example there is almost no change between the iPhone 4 and 4S that is worth upgrading for. Graphics cards are improving constantly but unless you are running DX11 stuff at the highest resolutions there is no real reason to constantly upgrade. The tablet market is different. Rumors of the iPad 3 getting a super HD display keep popping up (something that seems really stupid but we'll see) which could change the base resolution of all apps. There will be a second revision of the Fire which could fix its issues. And we know for certain that Windows 8 will be launching this fall with ARM support so low cost full fledged Windows tablets may be possible. The tablet market in 10 months will be completely different than it is today.