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I wonder if they are selling these at a loss? I can see it going down well in the XDA/Hacker community...
But they say they are not doing anything to prevent root - awesome!
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>Riskier move that has now spectacularly failed. Samsung's sales figures beg to differ. In an extreme, extreme way.
Yes, it's selling, but... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sa... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392422,00.asp And that's not even considering the patent mess that has killed the product in Europe.
People in Europe are getting screwed again . - Small Kindle: $79 - Power Adapter: $10 - Cost in USA: $89 (free shipping) Okay, so I see a banner that they ship to Europe. Excellent, I click it. Then I get a new banner, saying that my country qualifies for free shipping (pending some conditions). I go through the checkout process and I'm faced with the following list: - Kindle + Adapter: $119 - Shipping: $27 (what hap…
If you think you are being screwed, take a look at how it is for Brazil. Items (2): $118.99 Shipping & Handling: $28.97 Total Before Tax: $147.96 Estimated Tax To Be Collected: $0.00 Import Fees Deposit $140.74 --------- Order Total: $288.70 Obviously not Amazon's fault. We have absurd taxes here.
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To say this is to ignore the well-established history of retail upselling. When someone walks into a Best Buy and tells a salesperson "I want to spend $600 on a TV" the standard practice is to show them what they get for $600 and then you show them what more you get if you spend just a bit extra. People often walk out of these stores spending more than intended. By linking the Fire with the iPad, Amazon is (IMHO) mak…
> Not everyone will buy an iPad but some will when they see it plays games, has a richer app experience, has a larger display and so on. The kindle fire can play games and has a rich app experience thanks to android. The only thing the ipad has going for it is the larger display. Time will tell if people care about that.
There are a few other key, and important differences other than screen size.
o IOS 4 (and soon 5) - Lots of pre-existing premium apps.
o 8 Gigabytes Flash vs 16 Gigabytes. (I was surprised to see no SD card capability on the Fire. That sucks. I have a 64 GB iPad, and the extra flash makes a difference on long trips when you are watching videos)
o Video/Camera capability on iPad
o 10 Hours Battery on iPad vs 8 Hours on Fire
See: http://gizmodo.com/5844648/how-does-the-amazon-kindle-fire-t...
I love that instead of trying to be everything to everyone (a la android/ipad) Amazon is aiming to be really good at a few things, and thus drive price down. I'm not so interested in movies or ebooks, does anyone know of a tablet that just does email and web? and is cheaper because of it? BTW, Silk browser seems like a bundle of awesome ideas
Well, everyone's definition of "cheaper" may vary, but the Chromebook seems okay to me: http://amzn.to/q2FqQ9
I think they might be onto something there.
Bezos, on Amazon's refreshed e-Ink readers: So meet the family. These are premium products at non-premium prices. People are going to love these products. This is Amazon's mission statement for product development. They will not compete with Apple's "revolutionary, magical" phones and tablets; instead, they'll sell quality tablets and readers to the average person at great prices. This populist attitude has been miss…
Especially at this price point, it's not a replacement for a computer, it's squarely a supplement.
I think I prefer this vision to Apple's. It feels more democratic in that I think the iPad wants to replace computing, but privilege consumption at the expense of production.
Amazon's vision is still one of centralized distribution of content, but it strikes me as one that's comfortable coexisting with the Web model of distributed, democratic content production.
Some earlier discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955516
[Edit: Here's another take by Nilay Patel of This Is My Next on a similar point: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/editorial-kindle-fire-ipa... ]