Was i mistaken, or did i read that Kindle Fire sales for the first quarer collapsed to under 1mm sold?
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Kindle Fire catching up to Ipad (24.5% of all tablets sold)
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It's amazing how quickly we adapt to typing on the glass keyboard. That was my #2 concern when I was considering buying my first iPhone: How will I type on a tiny screen with my fat fingers?
Now that I've inherited my wife's iPad 1 (she got a new iPad), I can type nearly as fast on the glass keyboard as I can on a regular keyboard. Very nice.
You read that correctly. Now that Target dropped them from their stores, their sales are sure to sink even further.DollaTwentyFive said:
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Wow, I thought the 7" fad would last at least another week.
I'll accept that FOR YOU, that is true. FOR ME, I don't need my desktop to be amazing, I just need it to be good enough.
There are many Word compatible apps for the iPad, and while they may not have all the features of Word, for many people, that's enough. I personally never use anything other than the most basic features of Word.
The keyboard is also the most painful thing I have just about ever used, short of maybe cursor-based cable box keyboards. I never do email on it, it's faster to do it on the iPhone. It's great for books and Angry Birds though.
Again, I accept that YOU find the iPad keyboard hard to use. Personally, I find it a little slower than physical keyboard, but adequate for the way I use it. And I've seen people who can type quite rapidly on the iPad. Is it so difficult to understand that your experiences and needs don't match everyone else's?
The iPad keyboard sucks. But it is better than a stick in the eye.
The iPad has actually made me a better typist though and has made me appreciate my MBP more.
I am a better typist because the iPad forces me to go much slower and hold my fingers very steady. I take that with me when I switch back to the MBP. And my typing is better for it. IT is easy too since typing slower on the MBP than I used to is still 5x as fast as typing on the iPad.
I appreciate the MBP more because typing is faster and because loading webpages is faster.
I have been doing a lot more work on the MBP lately. I like the iPad, but these things plus the fact I can't print to my printer with the iPad have turned me back to the MPB lately.
The iPad has actually made me a better typist though and has made me appreciate my MBP more.
I am a better typist because the iPad forces me to go much slower and hold my fingers very steady. I take that with me when I switch back to the MBP. And my typing is better for it. IT is easy too since typing slower on the MBP than I used to is still 5x as fast as typing on the iPad.
I appreciate the MBP more because typing is faster and because loading webpages is faster.
I have been doing a lot more work on the MBP lately. I like the iPad, but these things plus the fact I can't print to my printer with the iPad have turned me back to the MPB lately.
I know this isn't in any way fact or proof by numbers or anything like that, but I commute a lot on public transportation and I see very few Kindle Fires out in the real world. I see TONS of regular e ink Kindles and Nooks and tons of iPads.
I did try a Kindle Fire once, and based on that one experience, I felt like it was a little bit of a piece of crap. The only reason I got to try it was that a lady on my train asked me to figure out how to turn the sound off on a game she was playing. She couldn't figure it out other than to stick the headphones in the headphone jack. There is no volume on the Fire, so all the sound controls are in the apps themselves. Not necessarily a big deal, but poor design. I also flipped around on the screens a bit. It's just not a smooth experience and the screen, after looking at a 3rd gen iPad or an e ink Kindle, is just sub par.
All that being said, I think the REAL reason shipments have plummeted on the Fire is that the $79 eink only version is probably even more attractive to people.
I did try a Kindle Fire once, and based on that one experience, I felt like it was a little bit of a piece of crap. The only reason I got to try it was that a lady on my train asked me to figure out how to turn the sound off on a game she was playing. She couldn't figure it out other than to stick the headphones in the headphone jack. There is no volume on the Fire, so all the sound controls are in the apps themselves. Not necessarily a big deal, but poor design. I also flipped around on the screens a bit. It's just not a smooth experience and the screen, after looking at a 3rd gen iPad or an e ink Kindle, is just sub par.
All that being said, I think the REAL reason shipments have plummeted on the Fire is that the $79 eink only version is probably even more attractive to people.
So, now, with the new numbers we have in the last two quarters:
iPads:27.2 million
Kindle Fire: 5.5 million
Which means for every 1 Kindle Fire sold, 5 iPads are sold.
Or just this last quarter, for every 1 Kindle Fire sold, 16-17 iPads are sold.
Some people are better typists than me. So the iPad would be even worse, relatively speaking.