You Don't Get In Trouble For Shouting "Fire"...
...when it's the new Kindle Fire ...
cnet says it's the price, stupid.
Here's the thing. Nobody needs a tablet, right? I mean, really, what do you NEED a tablet for? Sure, the Fire is literally HALF the machine the iPad is (far less memory, half the apps, no camera, no 3G, etc.), most people are going to say, "So what?" It's 200 bucks. Can I watch a movie? Cool. Read a book? Cool. Do some cool stuff on it? Cool. Can't video chat? Meh, most people don't anyway... Can't call somebody? Um, I have a cell phone - works pretty darn well, too... That tablet thingy would be a pretty big phone... Though... it's smaller than the iPad too, and that's a pretty big strike against it, in my book. I've been looking at tablets and the two biggest factors that I want (that NOBODY else seems to care about, I get it) is internal memory (I'd like 128 GB, thank you very much) and a full 8.5x11 inch screen. I'll never get it. So while I'm asking for the impossible - can I have a color e-ink option, too?
So...it's almost cheap enough to be "disposable technology" - almost. The new lowest price (with the ads for screen savers) Kindle is only 79 bucks. People are going to treat THAT as disposable technology, I don't doubt it for one minute.
Is the Kindle Fire the iPad killer? Nah.
But it just might be the Android tablet killer...we'll see...
cnet says it's the price, stupid.
Here's the thing. Nobody needs a tablet, right? I mean, really, what do you NEED a tablet for? Sure, the Fire is literally HALF the machine the iPad is (far less memory, half the apps, no camera, no 3G, etc.), most people are going to say, "So what?" It's 200 bucks. Can I watch a movie? Cool. Read a book? Cool. Do some cool stuff on it? Cool. Can't video chat? Meh, most people don't anyway... Can't call somebody? Um, I have a cell phone - works pretty darn well, too... That tablet thingy would be a pretty big phone... Though... it's smaller than the iPad too, and that's a pretty big strike against it, in my book. I've been looking at tablets and the two biggest factors that I want (that NOBODY else seems to care about, I get it) is internal memory (I'd like 128 GB, thank you very much) and a full 8.5x11 inch screen. I'll never get it. So while I'm asking for the impossible - can I have a color e-ink option, too?
So...it's almost cheap enough to be "disposable technology" - almost. The new lowest price (with the ads for screen savers) Kindle is only 79 bucks. People are going to treat THAT as disposable technology, I don't doubt it for one minute.
Is the Kindle Fire the iPad killer? Nah.
But it just might be the Android tablet killer...we'll see...
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