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Kindle Fire Seen Slowing Some Previously-Planned iPad Purchases
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you are making some terrible arguments in this thread, take a time out and think it through
I think everyone agrees that these devices aren't directly comparable. However, they are competing for the same consumer dollars. The entire tablet market is made up of consumers that want/need different things and they place value on certain features accordingly. Right now, there is no device selling well that address the segment of buyers that want a smaller device at a lower cost. Right now, these potential consumers have the choice of an iPad (or Tab/Xoom/Transformer) or a smaller device that may not have as decent an ecosystem.
If the Fire is a huge hit, then the folks that value a smaller screen and lower price will have the option to buy a device that fits their needs.
That's the point of this article and survey. Trying to assess the impact that the Fire will have on iPad (et al) sales.
Come on man, it's the subway. What are you willing to lose to theft! If you could disguise your iPad as a big kindle, you might hold on to it a little longer!
Too hard to read long articles, books. I hope people still read these things?
Especially if you are mid-age.
No tvs are all the same. I can watch movies and tv shows on mine and play games. Same as your tv. And mine cost $500 less. /sarcasm
So you've used one?
You're clearly biased and/or pissed off that some research DARED to report that some people are choosing another device over an iPad. Get over it. The iPad isn't for everyone. And it's good that people who don't want to spend the money on something they don't want or need have an option to get something they do.
Your attitude is what "sucks"
-juice
I prefer the nook tablet over the kindle fire... Too bad it is butt ass ugly though...
I am still rocking the first gen iPad though so don't need either one. But if I were to get one it would be the nook tablet, better specs for the money.
I was going to say notice how the fanboys put a product on a pedestal that no one has even used.
I haven't heard that.
But I know that it matters to me because I can't read (conveniently) on that iPod screen.
Can't speak for a whole market. But I think the jump from 4" - 7" does make a difference.
For now, I'll try and seek out the proof that it doesn't matter (in sales?).
They compete. But it is apples to oranges comparison. Actually, more accurately, its an Apple to Half Apple comparison.
The Fire can do many of the same things on a much smaller scale.
It also cannot do many of the same things as it lack storage space and as robust an ecosystem. Also, if you don't mind Amazon knowing every site you visit, when where and how often...then their web browser is just fine for you.
What drives me crazy is people saying the Fire is 80% of an iPad at half the price. That is an incredibly myopic point of view.
I was going to say notice how the fanboys put a product on a pedestal that no one has even used.
No one is putting the Kindle Fire on a pedestal. People are just stating why they would choose it over the ipad, since that is where this discussion as gone.
It's funny how all Apple fanboys trash everything other than Apple's products. They can't even seen the good things from competition.
Count me in as a member of the "affected group." I have a Kindle Fire on pre-order, and I'm pretty darn excited to get it late next week!!
I don't think you understand what an "ecosystem" is. Or you do, but you think only Apple has one. Hell, when some people say "Apple Ecosystem", I imagine their eyes glaze over, and they get one of those thousand yard stares that creep everyone out.
I'm already thinking about putting it on my list of overly used big words and phrases people throw around on the internet all the time so they look like they know what they're talking about. It'll be there alongside "innovative" and "relevant".
So you can no longer say stuff like "the Apple Ecosystem is innovative because it collaborates to the objectives of my principals, and is relevant to my chosen preliminary injunction of patent infringements you obviously don't understand. It Just Works. You mad, bro?".
Okay, just to clarify, Amazon and Apple are quite similar in alot of ways. They both host streaming movies, music, books, ect. The only real difference is that Apple uses standalone software, while Amazon hosts their services via a webpage. So no, it's not "just a webpage where you can buy em pee threez". Only an idiot would say something like that, let alone think it.
You're not an idiot...are you?
Apple has a better ecosystem for music and apps. The one thing Amazon does better is eBooks. It could have leveraged its ebook library as a Kindle exclusive and used that advantage to sell their hardware, but they're gonna keep the eBook library cross-platform.
This shows they care more about selling books than they do hardware. The opposite of Apple, which cares more about the hardware profit than it does about the media profit.
Amazon isn't trying to toss the iPad off its throne. It'll be happy positioning the Fire as a budget tablet, as long as it helps sell more ebooks. If it can find a niche submarket, like the Nook Color did among women, even better.