LG alone is slated to release 50 new Winmo models over the next year and HTC has already brought a Diamond 2 and HD Pro type phone to ATT with 6.5 and their new HD2 with a 1GHz snapdragon processor and 4.3″ multitouch screen debuts in Europe later this month

Add Samsung’s slick new organic LED-based Omnia II Winmo 6.5 phone with an 800 Mhz ARM processor and and Toshiba’s new TG01 also with a 1GHz snapdragon and there’s a pretty significant bevy of slick high tech Win-based phones to upgrade and extend the existing 30+ million Win-based phones

As a result, a new industry report projects Windows based phones to more than double over the next few years and jumping back to #2 behind Symbian with Android and iPhone making dents in the Symbian space.

Only a fool would ignore that market segment and Jeff Bezos isn’t a fool.

So, in their concern about not looking like monopolies, they seek to make connections with dead systems, just to be able to say they did it. Maybe next week, we’ll get a Kindle version for COBOL…