Hahahah
And wrong yet again
Kindle ereaders are not tablets They are gadgets like the Kindle Paperwhite. Tablets are the Fire line, and the Kindle Fire tablet.
How many times have you been wrong in this thread alone?
You claim Amazon is getting out of the hardware business but they just introduced the new Kindle paperwhite. And are bringing out a 50 buck tablet for Christmas reported by WSJ.
See the problem is you got caught and then had to gin up a scenario that makes your false statement true by changing definitions and slicing semantics.
And you really want to try the economist card again? hahaha that brings up some fun memories of you trying to explain to us how the total cost of sale of buying a new iphone by trading in an old iphone did not include the price you paid for the old iphone (which includes down payment and contract costs) because you realized the math didn't work on your claim that you pay less that way.
Though I can see why you are an EX-CEO being you can't do simple math.
hahahaha this is getting good now. Sword is becoming unhinged and grasping.
BTW your logic sez if a company does not make their own stuff and farms it out then they are out of the hardware business. Face it Sword you've FUDed yourself into a corner, and it is so fun to watch your squirm.
Next you will be telling us that if a Pilot's iPad powers down because an app glitches it has nothing to do with Apple even though they designed the ipad OS in such a way that an App can power down the iPad and ground flights.
Oh wait, you already tried that laugher hahahaha
Only in your mistaken mind. I know exactly how I bought and traded iPhones and kept prices of my phones low. YOU haven't a clue how total cost of ownership worked. The math worked. You are the one who couldn't grasp the simple math. You kept insisting the entire cost of the contract had to be included even though EVERY cellular phone has to pay such contracts costs. . . no matter which phone you selected. I accounted for those differences but you couldn't see that. YOU are blind to total cost accounting.
Kindle Readers have been being rooted for years and made into tablets, Mad Dawgg. They are essentially crippled Android tablets. I am suggesting the evidence shows they are getting out of the business of designing their own hardware in favor of reference designs from Chinese manufacturers who can do it easier and cheaper than can Amazon can on their own. I am not the only one suggesting this scenario. It is a perfectly viable means of doing business.
Please point to one published statistic from Amazon on the number of e-readers, Amazon Fire products sold of any type. You will not find it. They have NEVER, ever published such statistics and, in fact, have like you avoided answering any direct questions.
Questions like "Have you ever been in business?" Frankly, I doubt it. You don't seem to grasp any of the nuances of running one.
You claim Amazon is getting out of the hardware business but they just introduced the new Kindle paperwhite. And are bringing out a 50 buck tablet for Christmas reported by WSJ.
Where is your evidence of that "50 buck tablet" before Christmas other than rumors from unknown "knowledgable people"? I've told you that anyone of any competence analyzing that claim has to come to the conclusion that if they ARE going to release an Amazon Tablet for that kind of price, it has to be a "reference" tablet made by a no-name Chinese manufacturer who will put Amazon's name on it and load Amazon's fork of Android into it. That's the only way it can be manufactured and sold for that price and still have a reasonable quality product. Even then it's going to be pretty junky. That is just the economics of the process.
You again have to denigrate me. . . attacking my expertise in a field you obviously know nothing about. You are the one who is dancing around trying to find something that will stick.
As for the iPad Jeppesen Flight bag, it DID NOT SHUT DOWN THE IPAD. Which I told you at the time of the event. Jeppesen admitted they goofed and their software could not handle a duplicate map of Reagan National Airport which a technician had accidentally included in the database. . . causing their software to blank the screen. The solution was to delete and re-install the software. It was NOT a problem with iOS, nor did the app "power down" the iPad.
"The errant extra map was in the Jeppesen digital flight bag app used by American's pilots on iPads since 2013, according to Michael Pound, a spokesman for Jeppesen. "The cause of the issue was a single duplicate chart for Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in the chart database we supply to American. The version of the app they use is not able to reconcile duplicate charts, which caused the app to become unresponsive for those pilots who had 'favorited' National."— Errant App Caused iPad Problems for Some American Airlines Pilots
YOU refused to believe it was not a systemic problem and that Apple was covering it up and lying about the issue. YOU were delusional in the face of all the subsequent reports from the airline, Apple, and Jeppesen about what had happened.