Is the new Amazon Kindle Fire an iPad killer? Yes. It's the price, stupid

CNET ^ | 09/28/2011 | Molly Wood

[Freedom56v2]

Had one of these :)

[monkeyshine]

It won’t be long at all before Google launches one using Android. Microsoft has got to be very close (they are in the hardware biz with the x box already), but like Apple both will outsource to Taiwan or China anyway.

Amazon is and always will be a third tier player in this market. They make a big splash and say silly things like “The kindle is the #1 selling product Amazon has ever sold” - well OK, that’s because you can’t find 200,000 people who all buy the same other thing from you. It doesn’t mean you sold a lot of them in the grand scheme of things.

I am not a fan of Amazon for many reasons, but I won’t get into it now.

[Freedom56v2]

We bought one for typing a dissertation—it was wonderful. They were a victim of their own success thru marketing mistakes... they introduced the new model production schedule too soon, and people were waiting to buy it, so capital stream dried up...at least that is what I was told...

[newfreep]

One of the best scenes of all Seinfeld episodes...

[adorno]

This is not a table; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

[adorno]

This is not a tablet; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

[adorno]

This is not a tablet; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

[ClearBlueSky]

We laugh, now. at those old clunky computers, but we were glad to have them ‘back when’. And-lets see if any of the new, Ipad type things are still functional 10-20 years from now. ( If they’re not all lost or destroyed from dropping!) I had an old 286, gave it to a friend years ago, and she reports it STILL WORKS FINE!
Built’em to last, they did!

[Moonman62]

That's weird. There's an Obama poster on the wall.

[TexasRepublic]

A closed system? No thanks.

[buccaneer81]

Wow, I had forgotten about Osborne.

[buccaneer81]

That along with the first gen cell phone that I had....

I had the second gen bag phone.

[buccaneer81]

Still have one of those, a Commodore 64, Amiga 1000, IBM 8088, and a host of other useless, but can’t throw away relics.

In my garage are a

Mattel Intellivision

Atari 2600

Atari 5200

Commodore Vic 20

Commodore 64

1st Gen Sega System

8 Bit Nintendo

PS 1

Packard Bell 386

Packard Bell Pentium 75

PS 2

E-Machines 1.0 Gig

HP 2.8 Gig

I now use a Toshiba Satellite laptop and a PS 3.

[Recon Dad]

Thanks, I guess then I could use a spare hard drive.

[Recon Dad]

You’re right on the usb port, I just hadn’t had much contact with these devices yet. Very happy with my lap top but if these pads got more power and more storage who knows.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Boy did I want one of those.......

[BRL]

This is not a table; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

How about...

This is not a davenport; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

This is not a ottoman; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

This is not a credenza; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

This is not a vitrine; it’s a POS/cash machine in disguise.

[aruanan]

I'd argue that it's an iPad killer all the same.

On paper, the Kindle Fire has half the features of the iPad. In fact, it's almost literally half the features--here's a handy comparison chart so you can see for yourself. There's no camera, front or rear; the 8GB of onboard storage is half the amount of the base-model iPad; the Fire has no cellular options, no built-in GPS, and no Bluetooth, as the iPad does. The software options compared to the iPad are minimal, and the app library for Android still isn't nearly as robust as the iOS app library. All true facts. Doesn't matter.



Half the teeth. Half the brains.
Half the features. Half the price.
A woman is a woman is a woman.
A tablet is a tablet is a tablet.
Anyone from a third world country is no different from anyone else from a third world country.

Doesn't matter?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Kind of like George Kostanza trying to return his “tainted” book.

[Revolting cat!]

I can’t believe how many comments and harsh judgments on this and other similar threads are based on some silly and shallow political opinions. (I only used the word “political” as a generous gesture.) So you hate Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft? Facebook too, goes without saying. Yawn! How do you survive in this wicked world? There are plenty of reasons to hate your grocery supermarket, the oil company that produces your gasoline, the bagel bakery, Coca Cola, but yes, Pepsi as well, the dairy, the chicken factory, the vitamin maker, and your blood pressure medication Big Pharma manufacturer, among all others. Perhaps you’re terribly uninformed if you are not yet dissing and boycotting all those, and not starving yourself to death in protest. And don’t you hate Fruit of the Loom too? Do us all a favour, huh?!