Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage
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#2I believe that what Gizmodo says is actually true and something that Apple "forgot" to mention when comparing(highlight the "good" things while omitting all the other things) the Nexus 7 with their new iPad so I do not blame Amazon for pointing it out to a wider public. If Apple wants to play this game, they must be ready to get fought back.
EDIT: also, I still have no idea why isn't that thing Retina. I mean, they have putted it on everything, iPhone, iPad and Air, why not this? the Retina might be still the only great feature of iDevices and they have removed it? Why ? to put it in the next model to double the sales? To make it cheaper? It is not. This things make me really dislike Apple.
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#3Not a bad idea. The low dpi screen of the iPad mini really is a glaring flaw when you consider the price.
And because of that price, there's going to be a long future for Android tablets in the sub-$250 range, now that Google and Amazon have proven you can make and sell a worthy device for that kind of money.
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#4Discussed previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710114
Re: Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage
#5Not a bad idea. The low dpi screen of the iPad mini really is a glaring flaw when you consider the price. And because of that price, there's going to be a long future for Android tablets in the sub-$250 range, now that Google and Amazon have proven you can make and sell a worthy device for that kind of money.
They've proven that you can sell at that price, but not that you can make money at that price. Time will tell.
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#6Not a bad idea. The low dpi screen of the iPad mini really is a glaring flaw when you consider the price. And because of that price, there's going to be a long future for Android tablets in the sub-$250 range, now that Google and Amazon have proven you can make and sell a worthy device for that kind of money.
They've proven that you can sell at that price, but not that you can make money at that price. Time will tell.
Their profit isn't from the hardware sale, but from the media/apps thereafter.
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#7I believe that what Gizmodo says is actually true and something that Apple "forgot" to mention when comparing(highlight the "good" things while omitting all the other things) the Nexus 7 with their new iPad so I do not blame Amazon for pointing it out to a wider public. If Apple wants to play this game, they must be ready to get fought back. EDIT: also, I still have no idea why isn't that thing Retina. I mean, they h…
I suspect Mini "2" will have Retina.
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#8It's a shame that they have resorted to direct attacks, but given Apple's comments about "all 7" tablets" I can't really blame them.
I do wish they would all just shut up and concentrate on the value of their own products though.
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#9And that is exactly the reason why vendors like to control the distribution / means of access to their products.
e.g. Apple retail stores selling Apple products, Chrome as a browser to access Google products from desktop or Android from mobile, etc.
The goal is not having other companies in a position in which they can significantly affect your business if they choose to do so (e.g. indie developers and the Apple app store).
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#10The Fire HD seems to have an easier to sell homescreen too. While the iPad has these small icons with flowers and such (even in their official marketing) the Kindle's homescreen presents a plethora of stuff to appeal to the mass market: feature films, popular books, popular magazines, angry birds (I'm not sure about the US, but Angry Birds seems to have quite a long lasting appeal especially among young teenagers), Facebook, Skype, TV.
While the iPad can do all of this, the Kindle immediately demonstrates this to the consumer. I can see it doing really well against the iPad mini with that sort of imagery being shown to customers.