[arista]

Amazon's Kindle Fire set to go head-to-head with Apple's iPad.


"The $199 (£128) colour touchscreen tablet called the Kindle Fire was unveiled at a press conference in New York with all the secrecy and prerelease teasing Apple usually sprinkles on its launches.
The new Kindle is far less advanced than the iPad. It doesn't offer a mobile connection, working only with Wi-Fi; it doesn't have a camera or microphone; and its screen, at 7 inches, is smaller than the iPad, at 9.7 inches.
However, at half the price, analysts said it presents the first serious challenge to the iPad's dominance of the tablet market, as Bezos tries to build on the success of his company's Kindle book reader with a colour-screen, multimedia offering for US consumers. In Britain, buyers will have to wait until next year at the earliest."



http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...zon-jeff-bezos




Feel The Force

A note issued Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities says there is a market for Amazon's new Android based color Kindle Fire model, but that it is "not the market that Apple is addressing."

-AppleInsider.com


Feel That Force.

[arista]

At this price
it will effect the well over priced ipad.


Utter Fact

[Chuck]

The more competition the better.

Originally Posted by arista

At this price
it will effect the well over priced ipad.


Utter Fact

Apple Stickyness will keep its customers in the ecosystem. A contender but not a winner.



Bow down to your god.

[Roy Mars III]

Very cool, and a great price. I've thought about getting a Kindle before, will have to look into this.

[CharlieO]

Apple >

[arista]

"Bow down to your god. "

No he is on the way out.

[Roy Mars III]

Apple will not be on top much longer. The revolution is about to begin.

Originally Posted by arista

"Bow down to your god. "

No he is on the way out.

He's now Chairman of the board, Tim Cook has replaced him because of health issues. He still has a huge say in the company though, and knowing him he probably still works more than Tim.

[arista]

Originally Posted by chuck.pass

The more competition the better.

yes the ipad2 could be £200
but they keep it at £400.


Once you make that volume the price gets lower.
So Ipad2 is well over priced.



Amazons Kindle Fire is a Great price.
Amazon Future products can over take Apple as there Platform and Sites
can offer more than apple.


In time it will change
This is Normal.

[arista]

Originally Posted by mathews220

He's now Chairman of the board, Tim Cook has replaced him because of health issues. He still has a huge say in the company though, and knowing him he probably still works more than Tim.

Sure Apple is Big.


But Amazon Future Products will not be Over Priced like Apple.



The Change starts now.
some do not even shop on Amazon
but will in order to buy New Products at Fair Prices.


Times Are Hard

[Callum]

All you can do on the Kindle Fire is read books though, right? Where as with the iPad, reading books is one of many features on it.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Callum

All you can do on the Kindle Fire is read books though, right? Where as with the iPad, reading books is one of many features on it.

the Fire has more
using clouds


"He then took a swipe at Apple, saying there would be no need to synchronise the Kindle Fire to a computer, as people do with their iPads. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he said.

Michael Gartenberg, analyst at Gartner, said the announcement pitched Apple and Amazon head to head in the battle for "cloud" media services. Both Apple and Amazon have been developing services that allow customers to store their music, movies and TV shows remotely – "in the cloud" – and then access them from any device connected to the web. Next week, Apple is expected to respond, with more details of its inevitably-named iCloud service next week. "For me, that was the most significant part of the announcement," said Gartenberg. He said the Kindle Fire looked like a good product and was priced to sell, but the real battle was "in the cloud".

Amazon plans to begin taking orders for the Fire on its US website immediately, and will start shipping on 15 November. Bezos said the company was "making many millions of these" – but Amazon has no immediate plans to launch the Fire in the UK.

Reaction at the event was mixed. Avram Piltch, editorial director at Laptop Magazine, said the device looked "more like an iPod killer than an iPad killer". He said the Kindle Fire looked set to be a big seller for people who want to use it to consume media, but it didn't have enough firepower to take on the iPad or other tablet manufacturers who were making devices for people at work rather than play.

The new Kindle has its work cut out for it. Apple sold more than 29m iPads in the product's first 15 months on the market. Most of its competitors have bombed. Hewlett Packard scrapped its tablet device in an embarrassing U-turn that contributed to the ousting of its chief executive. Blackberry maker Research in Motion shipped just 200,000 of its own rival to the iPad, the PlayBook, in three months.

But, said Gartenberg, Amazon has one big advantage over the other would-be iPad killers: content. "Amazon has millions of customers already buying their stuff. It has their credit card details, it knows their names. That's a big advantage," he said.

Next Tuesday, Apple will have its chance to respond – except that its big launch for Christmas is the latest version of the somewhat smaller iPhone. The battle has just begun."

Originally Posted by arista

Sure Apple is Big.


But Amazon Future Products will not be Over Priced like Apple.



The Change starts now.
some do not even shop on Amazon
but will in order to buy New Products at Fair Prices.


Times Are Hard

Times may be hard but Apple has continued to defy the worse economic downturn in decades and has become the worlds most valuable company during that time. Apple isn't going away anytime soon. Face the facts.

[arista]

Originally Posted by mathews220

Times may be hard but Apple has continued to defy the worse economic downturn in decades and has become the worlds most valuable company during that time. Apple isn't going away anytime soon. Face the facts.

Of course Apple is staying.


But Better Priced Amazon Products will over take them
in time.

Originally Posted by arista

Of course Apple is staying.


But Better Priced Amazon Products will over take them
in time.

Amazon will never have the brand power or ecosystem Apple has. Far superior products will keep Apple ahead of the game.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Apple will not be on top much longer. The revolution is about to begin.

Hopefully.

[arista]

Originally Posted by mathews220

Amazon will never have the brand power or ecosystem Apple has. Far superior products will keep Apple ahead of the game.

we will see
no need to get cocky.

[Harry!]

Apple are so overated it is not funny. I am never going to buy any Apple products and please can they go away!