So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day 291
An anonymous reader writes "Leaked screens from Amazon's internal stock monitoring and assignment system (Alaska) has revealed just how popular the Kindle Fire tablet is already. In just 5 days of being up for pre-order there have been 250,000 reserved. That's more than 50,000 per day or 2,000 sold every hour. If that continues to launch day Amazon will need to have 2.5 million ready to ship to meet demand. To put that in context, the original iPad managed to ship 1 million in its first month."
The key phrase seems to be "if this level of consumer demand continues" — but given the success of the e-ink Kindle line, that might not be crazy. Do you want one, or not?
no wonder... (Score:2)
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Make that $199 for the Fire.
$79 if you want the lowest end no-keyboard version (which is my favourite considering I already have a Xoom for my tablet needs).
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I want one also. I've been drooling over the iPad for quite awhile, but couldn't justify the $499 starting price point. At $199, though, I can buy one for me and one for my wife and still save money versus buying a single iPad. No, it doesn't have all of the features that the iPad has, but that's why it is being offered for less money.
Of course, from what I've heard, there will be a Kindle Fire 2 released in early 2012 which will be better than this initial offering. I might just start saving now and se
Right product, right price (Score:3)
This is the first competitor to the iPad at the working-class level. It's priced affordably and contains most of the features people will actually use.
Is it as full-featured as the iPad, of course not, but you don't need $500-600 to get into one. This device could bring apps, cloud storage, streaming media, and these kinds of things down to a crowd that couldn't afford the pay the Apple premium before.
Some will gripe about there not being cameras or a huge amount of onboard storage, but for the average consumer, this will give them 80% of the iPad at 40% of the price
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The Apple product doesn't have a huge amount of onboard storage either.
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This is a legitimate gripe in a way, but really, 60GB isn't enough to store all of my audio, either.
If I have to section off 8GB or 60GB of my music collection and maintain that, it's about the same amount of trouble either way - maybe even more trouble to maintain the larger list.
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Or, you could create an automatic playlist of all your music and set-up the iPad to just fill all available space with music sourced from that playlist.
No lists to maintain.
-dZ.
Re:Right product, right price (Score:5, Insightful)
Heh, I think half the average consumers for this type of device would be satisfied with a tablet with two functions: a web browser, and Angry Birds. Bonus for a basic MP3 player. Bring that in for around US$125 and you've got a killer product.
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Of course to get full functionality you'll need to root [theunlockr.com]
and a quick install of your particular flavor ROM [theunlockr.com]
Inadeqate on board memory (Score:2)
* Gig may be enough for Ebooks, but its not enough for mp3's. Especially as there is no slot for a (SD or MicroSD) memory card.
Amazon may say you store your media on their cloud, but its only got WiFi and you might not always be within a EiFi area that you have free access to.
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This is an internet appliance, basically. It's predicated on internet access. Just as laptops and desktops aren't that much good without internet access, neither will this be.
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I pre-ordered mine on the 2nd day, to make sure I was in line to NOT get delayed shipping (I can always cancel before Nov 15 if I change my mind, after all). I ordered specifically because it WASN'T the iPad. I didn't want the camera and all the extra features, or the price. I imagine I'm like a lot of people:
I want something to read books on, but want something more than a regular Kindle. (ie: color) I want to be able to do some basic web browsing, read news, check web mail, etc and do basic work tasks
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Motorola and Samsung sell chips and they will sell them to anyone.
Neither is dependent on the success of products that would be viewed as iPad clones.
It's really Apple that's the single most vulnerable player in this space. Their tablets represents a far larger part of their business than such does for any of their rivals.
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I think you are completely right. I don't think Amazon is going after Apple with their Fire offering. At least not at first. They're not trying to be the #1 tablet, but the #2 tablet. If they play this right and if the Fire lives up to the hype, they'll wipe the floor with the other tablets. Then, when someone decides which tablet to buy, they'll ask themselves whether they want to spend the $499+ for an iPad or go with the cheaper, less-feature-rich, but still very nice Kindle Fire for $199.
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Holy extrapolation (Score:2)
batman.
Very good numbers (Score:2)
50,000 pre-orders per day is very good, but comparing it to the iPad is just asking for trouble. Wait until we get closer to the actual release date. I highly doubt that daily iPad pre-orders were linear in the weeks leading up to the official release, just as I doubt daily Fire orders will be linear. There are six weeks to go. A lot can happen in six weeks!
Oblig. (Score:3)
http://xkcd.com/605/ [xkcd.com]
"By your third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside of you."
Thinking about it (Score:2)
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I dunno, I'm with the OP on this one. Both the Fire and the iPod are small enough to carry together (especially when you carry a purse or bag all the time anyway), and not everyone wants to have every possible function integrated into one device. I have an iPhone, but I still carry my iPod because I don't want to run the battery in my phone dead listening to music. That, and I hate not being able to listen to something I want simply because my phone doesn't have enough space to hold the bulk of my music
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I'm not interested in pushing the iPad on you, but I do want to mention that a 3.5" device and a 10" device have different uses. If you were to have an iPad and an iPod, they would serve different purposes, and you wouldn't WANT to carry them together. The iPod goes in the pocket, the iPad sits next to the couch or the bed. But if you got her a 7" device and it isn't quite big enough to make that difference, then you're likely to end up with something becoming a door stop.
If she has an iPod, get her an i
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I bought a galaxy tab for my self, and after a week I was battling my wife over it so I had to buy one for her as well and she loves it. I don't think the fire would be approved :)
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If she really uses a iPod Touch she won't be happy with the Fire... "what do you mean I can't load all my iTunes and iApps?".
She uses the iPod Touch as a music player & for shooting videos of her dog. The fire would be used mostly for reading eBooks & browsing the web, which she does not use the iPod Touch for very often, so no big worries there. Besides, if she buys Kindle books she can always get them on the iPod Touch as well using the Kindle app.
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"Happy Christmas, honey-- Here you go!
I know it's not an iPad, but it's cheaper. Just as good, right?
Just thinking of you...
what??
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I ordered a Fire for my wife, all she really wants is an e-book reader with a web browser for e-mail, although I'm sure she'll find plenty of other uses for it once she gets it.
Want or not? Irrelevant - I can't have it (Score:2)
But being from a Non-US country, I don't even have the choice.
I know better than to blame Amazon (entirely) - their whole concept is based on media, and they do not have license agreements in place globally. As they are selling at cost (or even a few $ loss) pr. device, I can understand they don't wan't be to buy until they can ge
Amazon is right on this one (Score:2)
I think Amazon is being very clever with the Kindle Fire. It is a new device with tons of content readily available (more than iTunes, I believe), it is cheap and, most importantly, it is not a direct competitor to the iPad.
People who want (or don't mind) a 7" device will get the Kindle Fire. People who need a larger screen will go for the other tablets (mostly the iPad, these days).
I think the Kindle Fire will sell pretty well. And Apple will have someone else other than Samsung to get worried about.
How well does it work for scientific books? (Score:3)
I'm curious about the Kindle but some reviews I've read on amazon claim that its display size and its weak zoom function make it useless for typical university books (mathematics, computer science).
I have no first-hand experience, so could someone here enlighten me whether it's a viable alternative to paper?
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I dont know... full text search is a big deal, as well as being able to carry hundreds of books all at once to make sure you always have the right one with you.
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Screen size is an issue. There's a reason most textbooks are physically large. The Kindle DX works around this to a degree but the resolution's not quite good enough for figures and equations.
Do I want one? (Score:2)
No. For two reasons. Like somersault above, I already have a tablet for tablet-y things. I've tried reading with the Kindle app, and while the presentation is good, the glow from the screen strains my eyes. Also, battery life sucks for this purpose.
The second and more important reason is I wanted an e-ink display for a reader. A touch screen isn't very useful, either.
So what I ordered was the previous generation Kindle Keyboard as they call it now, with no ads. Small, great battery life, /and/ they had a re
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I've tried reading with the Kindle app, and while the presentation is good, the glow from the screen strains my eyes. Also, battery life sucks for this purpose.
While I agree with you, especially if you read for more than an hour a day, you might get better results switching to black background with white lettering. After a day at work staring at a PC screen, the last thing I want to do is try and read for leisure off of one (which is why I have an eInk reader) but I can do so comfortably for limited amounts of time by swapping the pallet. I know the Android Kindle app allows for swapping, and I'm pretty sure the Touchpad app does as well but that's all I have fa
Doesn't surprise me that much. (Score:5, Interesting)
Apple essentially reinvented the market for tablet devices with the iPad. Which is a premium product being sold by a company with a reputation for premium products at a premium price.
Virtually every other major manufacturer looked at it, thought "Hey, we can do something similar" and started selling their product for about the same price - give or take maybe 5-10%. The likes of HP discovered the hard way that they do not have a premium reputation. But the Touchpad sale proved that actually there's huge demand there if the product can be sold not 5-10% cheaper than the iPad, but 50-80%.
Given the development time these things take and the sort of notice you have to give to a big factory to get thousands of anything, Amazon have probably been thinking this for some time.
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But the Touchpad sale proved that actually there's huge demand there if the product can be sold not 5-10% cheaper than the iPad, but 50-80%.
Lots of uneconomical products sell if priced at less than 1/3rd the manufacturing cost. There'd be a Model S on every block by now if they sold for $12k. I'd have a 6 monitor setup on my desk at home if I could find one for $300. Not that I don't like my $99 Touchpad, but there's no way I would have dropped $350 for the device.
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This is exactly my point.
I have a sneaking suspicion that all the manufacturers set up to build a product that would retail at $4-500 and could not possibly break even at less than $350. Which means not only did they have a product that was being pitched too pricey, there was no way of reducing the price without making a whacking great loss.
Amazon, OTOH, have obviously considered that from the off. They'll do fine.
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An interesting viewpoint.
While Apple can certainly be commended for redefining tablet computing,
Id also like to add in another thought for consideration.
Bearing in mind that Microsoft are yet to bring to market a viable tablet / phone OS to compete with iOS would we have seen the explosion of iPad
(android) alternatives if it was not for the proliferation of Android?
In short - do we owe some degree of thanks to the (i use the term loosely) openness of Android/Google that so many other manufacturers have been
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Pre-Ordered on day 1 (Score:2)
Given the fact that it is an Android device, I have faith that it will be hacked fairly quickly, and you will be able to do almost anything with it anyways!
Wake me up... (Score:2)
...when you guys have shoehorned Android onto it!
I'm one of those that pre-ordered. (Score:2)
I don't own a tablet yet. I refuse to give Apple any money, and other tablets didn't impress me.
I like that this thing is only 7" and will fit into an inside suit jacket pocket.
I was seriously looking at the BB Playbook, but the software just isn't there yet.
This was a no brainer for me.
The Kindle Fire will make a nice media consumption device.
I already have a 3G kindle for reading books.
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I've disliked Apple and Steve Jobs since for a variety of reasons since the early 90s.
1) They crushed the Mac clone market
2) Until switching to Intel's CTD chips,they sold inferior hardware for bloated prices to their legions of loyal fans.
3) Jobs/Pixar/Stock options
4) iTunes
Amazon provides solid hardware at great prices, they allow me to copy PDFs directly to my Kindle via a regular, 99 cent USB cable, they provided free instant videos to Prime Users, etc, etc, etc.
Apple will not get a penny from me at lon
Re:50,000 a day? (Score:5, Insightful)
This device, at $200, can actually give people on limited budgets an entry way to using the internet the way more well-heeled people do. They can stream media, read ebooks, store music in the cloud, access the internet - it's hard to even find a decent netbook at $200, or at least one that performs well at all these tasks.
It could be something that allows the lower income into the web today, instead of the web as it was 5-10 years ago.
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Yes, but they are not the early adopters. In this economy, a lot of people don't have a spare $200 to spend on a shiny new toy.
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If you can't afford a mere $200 for a computer like product...then you definitely have better things to do with your life, like study and look for a better JOB.
If you're a broke college student, this doesn't apply...but, if you're a grown adult, still wearing a nametag and asking "if you want fries with that"...you seriously have made some vocational errors. By this time in life, you should have enough money put back fo
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There are impacts to even those of us who are working, such as inflation. Inflation is being under-reported, and it is being hidden in the government's official numbers by the horrendous housing market.
Not only is the price of everything at the grocery store rising, you go to the bank and they're slapping new fees on everywhere, state and local governments are raising fees and taxes... there is nothing that isn't becoming a lot less affordable, it would seem, except gasoline and that's a symptom of the econ
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"there is nothing that isn't becoming a lot less affordable"... except apparently excellent, inexpensive, computer-replacing tablets. Which is exactly tripleevenfall's point. It's three times easier to save up $200 for a Kindle Fire than a $600 laptop.
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Well, time to do some life changes...to combat this, and it isn't that hard.
1. If you bank is raising fees for things like debit card usage....try shopping for a new bank (not all of them are doing this), and/or stop using debit cards. Carry cash, use a check, or do a credit card but ONLY charge enough that you can pay off in full each month.
2. Food...well, stop eating out so oft
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"access the internet " BZZZT! Only from a Wifi Connection. they DISABLED web browsing from the 3G connection.
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If it has a IMEI number, this will be hacked within months.
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Kind of hard to hack something that doesn't exist. There is no 3G support at all in the device.
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Hence the 'If".
Nobody has cracked one open.
If the chip is there, Amazon might have it just turned off.
Time will tell.
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And I'm equally sure that Amazon will crush/disable any device that uses the connection for anything other than exchanges with their sites. They use AT&T's network and I'm sure they have plenty of tools in place to help Amazon out with that endeavor.
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Re:50,000 a day? (Score:5, Insightful)
Because most people have a job. And $200 is not bank breaking for a lot of people. And because they don't give a shit about a walled garden.
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That walled garden escalates the total cost of ownership for the thing. It increases what you would otherwise pay for the same content.
The initial $200 may not "break the bank", but the content acquisition model will make things more expensive forever after.
That said: $200 is certainly a better teaser price point than $600.
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Apple's model also continually farms cash via content acquisition.
Re:50,000 a day? (Score:5, Funny)
I wasn't applauding it, I was just pointing out that both platforms have the same shortcoming.
And it's Stockholm Syndrome... I'm not sure what Helsinki syndrome would be... an insatiable desire for cabbage rolls and pea soup? :)
A refurbished iPad is $300. (Score:4, Interesting)
The iPad 1 is $299 (yes, that's "refurbished," but many people believe that's just Apple's strategy for price discrimination since Apple "refurbished" products are indistinguishable from new).
That's the real competitor for the Kindle Fire, and with over twice the screen real estate, twice the memory, and an infinitely better selection of apps than are available in the Amazon Appstore, for most people the iPad is likely to be the better purchase.
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I don't think Amazon views the limited supply of refurbished iPad units as a competitor. There's a pretty finite supply of them.
Re:A refurbished iPad is $300. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd rather have a faster tablet with a smaller screen that's easier to carry around, thanks. My wife can fit a 7" tablet in her purse no problem. I carry a 5" Dell Streak with me everywhere and use it as my current Kindle device regularly.
10" tablets are not the be-all and end-all of tablet sizing.
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"Some people prefer the portability of a 7" tablet."
Until they try to read their first educational or technical book on it. Then they hate it.
7" is great for novels and recreational reading, it's utter crap for technical manuals, documents, magazines, and Textbooks. I have an iPad and a KindleDX and those are far,far,FAR, superior to any 7" reader made for any document that is not a paperback novel.
I personally want a 12" reader that has a 8.5" X11" screen.
Different strokes (Score:2)
Not all of us ready educational and technical books, so it isn't really an "until they try to" situation as you put it.
Paperbacks dominate the market for books, and this thing has a form-factor similar to a paperback.
Frankly, for technical documents where I need to be flipping around a lot as opposed to reading straight through, paper kills any electronic medium.
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"Some people prefer the portability of a 7" tablet."
Until they try to read their first educational or technical book on it. Then they hate it.
7" is great for novels and recreational reading, it's utter crap for technical manuals, documents, magazines, and Textbooks. I have an iPad and a KindleDX and those are far,far,FAR, superior to any 7" reader made for any document that is not a paperback novel.
I personally want a 12" reader that has a 8.5" X11" screen.
I think that most people looking at a 7 inch tablet aren't doing so to be able to read technical documents. Students looking for something for educational materials, maybe. I have a cheap 7 inch android tablet that (so far) has been able to handle pretty much every course book I've thrown at it, though - illustrations and diagrams included. I don't use the standard PDF reader (utter crap). I use QuickOffice. It seems to handle huge PDFs much better than anything else I've seen for android.
In any case, I t
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It also has a better battery life and you can pay a bit more and get a 3G version with GPS. Its not so cut and dry.
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You got a defective refurb, and should probably take it back.
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Some people see a walled garden as a benefit because it offers better quality control and a more streamlined user experience.
I really don't see the rational of paying more for the same content, unless you are talking about pirated content.
If Amazon is able to get a large market power with the Kindle, it can actually lower the prices individuals pay for content. Amazon would have more leverage in negotiating with content providers and have an incentive to have prices low to compete with Apple.
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That walled garden escalates the total cost of ownership for the thing. It increases what you would otherwise pay for the same content.
You're talking about a demographic that rents-to-own furniture, takes payday loans, and eats fast food.
Seriously.
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I was debating getting a new laptop to replace my aging desktop, but I pre-ordered one of these instead.
For the larger tasks like writing emails or for mass storage, I'll just keep my desktop plugged in somewhere in the house but powered down. For email, media, and day to day web surfing I'll use the Fire.
I am wondering how often I will end up booting the old desktop PC...
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The intent of this device is to get you to buy and use Amazon products and services. So unless Amazon buys Netflix, I'd be stunned to see them allow the installation of the Netflix application on their devices.
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I'd originally thought this too...however, this Kindle Fire doesn't have the microSD card capability that the nook color does.
So, you can't boot from external media, that will make it quite tough to 'hack' into....that and the Fire only has like 8GB of internal memory...which is gonna get small quickly witho
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Easy - it'll have all access to apps that the Amazon App Store has. The fire's a nice device, but it's so tied to Amazon that outside of the US, it's useless - you can't buy music or apps unless you have a US credit card.
As for hacking it - has anyone hacked the Playbook yet? They're the same internally after all..
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"On the iPad, you have to use iTunes to install everything,"
are you stupid? have you ever touched an iPad or iPhone?
I dont use itunes at all except to back up the device once in a while. I install EVERYTHING from the apps store ON the device.
Got some other crap you made up about the iPad?
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What do you mean by "Amazon gives you an old fashioned MP3 for music"? Do you think you can only get music from the iTunes Store? All the iPods, iPhones and iPads as well as iTunes have always been able to playback MP3 files gotten from various non-iTunes sources. You can even re-encode tracks into MP3 if you so desire. The default format for audio files is AAC because it's better per bitrate but nothing prevents you from making MP3 or WAV the default file format.
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Amazon knows they need to get ahead of this iPod as media device trend and they also know they are WAY behind with little hope of catching up without making a concess
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They are most certainly not selling the fire at a loss. Archos have sold such tablets [archos.com] for years at around the same pricepoint, and believe me, they're making money out of them.
cnet might disagree with all their theoretical computations of course. But who cares?
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Yes, yes they do.
You can install your own Android apps (Score:2)
No one knows for sure, but it is believed you can install your own Android apps.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393740,00.asp [pcmag.com]
"Jenkins said he didn't know whether the bootloader was locked, which is one hurdle Android hackers face when altering their devices. The company won't help hackers root the tablet, it just isn't actively trying to stop them. The tablet has a USB port and mass storage mode, so you can also sideload Android APK program files, even without rooting it. That will be one way to get a
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If there's a great depression going on throughout the world, where the hell are people finding the scratch to piss away on electronic devices that will be stuck in a walled garden and bricked in less than a decade?
I ran the numbers, and if those are US only, that means perhaps the top 0.013% of the population is doing OK... Or if world wide numbers, the top 0.00007% of the population is doing OK.
Nearly an impulse buy at this price (Score:5, Informative)
for many of us who frequent a site like this the price point is spectacular.
I already own an iPad, what I am looking for is a smaller form factor. The only negative I saw with the Fire was no camera, but having an iPad and its crappy as not to be even worth having camera, I found I don't miss that. I have a real camera and a better one on my phone anyway.
To me this is the first real Android tablet at a price point I expected. I didn't want Android tablets trying to ape iPads in features and price. I wanted an good alternative in a package that is not cumbersome. Yeah, after a few months with my iPad it suddenly feels big. It certainly isn't being used for all the things I was planning to use it for, but the Fire will do that just as well and I can buy myself and my parents each one and still be under the price of my iPad. As for the walled garden, I am pretty much there with my iPad and I have seen articles claiming Amazon won't go out of their way to stop me from rooting it if I want.
Frankly, after all the years of Apple products I am tired of the price and getting really tired of the feeling I am locked in.
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Two questions:
1) Where did they say that the Amazon Fire would only operate within a walled garden? Sure, they're tying it into the Amazon Video, Music, Cloud Storage, etc offerings, but they are have a web browser in it as well. You can go to google.com or any other website that you want to go to and Amazon won't stop you.
2) "Bricked in less than a decade"? Let's start with the second half of that statement. What computing device sold today is seriously purchased with the intent of it being completely
Why a depression (Score:2)
In the past year I have been saying something along this lines to explain why there is a recession and the iPhone (I am using this device as a generalization for the entire smart phone/tablet market) is one of the initiators.
It is the device everyone should have, so sales for these devices (including apps) are skyrocketing. It is something that you can flounder around with, peer pressure... Because the non-essential money is spent on these luxury items, no money goes towards the things that are within the h
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You want people pissing away money like this during a [dep/rec]ession.
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You want people pissing money away on locally produced products, not imported crap. Locally produced products improve the local economy, imports do not.
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Being "American companies" doesn't help that much. Apple has very few employees in the US, and very little of its income gets reinvested here to invigorate the economy.
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You want people pissing away money like this during a [dep/rec]ession.
Not really. According to several sources, Amazon is taking a loss on these. They are assembled in China from parts made in China. Buying one, you are just transferring your money to China. Since this is Amazon we're talking about, your purchase won't even be generating any tax revenue.
Though in general what you say is true - during a recession you want to encourage the people that have money to spend some of it - this appears to me to be an extraordinarily bad place to be doing that. Yes, eventually Amazon
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To be fair, if you look at U-6 which is a better measure of true employment misery, we're above 16%
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"Wake me up when there is 25%+ unemployment and breadlines."
You are a head in the sand idiot, no wait. that is a insult to idiots, you are simply a dip-shit.
Unemployment figure is ONLY those currently receiving unemployment insurance. everyone else is not counted, so if you ran out your unemployment you are no longer counted.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/learn-how-to-invest/The-real-unemployment-rate.aspx [msn.com]
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/07/16/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate/ [dailyfinance.com]
http://www.qualityinfo [qualityinfo.org]
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If only your tears were nutritious. No one would go hungry again.
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Yeah, but if you get one of those laptops that doesn't have the screen attached and is shaped like a big box, you can run 4 monitors, edit video, render 3-D animation and host 200 people at a time as a web server? Why would you want a tablet that does a lot less?