Amazon’s Kindle Fire is Blazing, Hot on iPad’s Trail
Tablet computers like the iPad and Kindle Fire top many of the Black Friday and Christmas lists. Next on the list are big screen HD TV’s, then notebook computers and smartphones like the Galaxy Nexus, iPhone 4S and Galaxy S2.
The Kindle Fire presold millions with millions more to go before Christmas rolls around. No other tablet competitor of the iPad has come anywhere close to that level of sales. Many men on are on board with the Kindle Fire while women still lean more heavily toward the iPad.
Amazon sold many million Kindles that were single focused as exceptional e-readers. Readability, battery life and usability made the devices huge sellers from the beginning. The Kindle Fire gives up some of these features and adds typical tablet functionality like color, Android apps, movie streaming and generally a platform for multi-media content.
Most importantly, Amazon brings all this function at the price of a low end camera, just $199. If you sign up for an Amazon credit card, you can get the device for just $160. That is a deal completely unmatched by anyone else especially when you consider the backend media access that Amazon provides for their hardware gadgets.
iPads will continue to be big sellers but Kindle Fires will be the tablet for the masses because of its price range and availability of apps and media from Amazon.
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