BOLDER DASH...
This Kindle Fire nonsense is utter poppy cock. The yanks low end yanks may want a cheap color book reader, but the rest of us will buy a proper Tablet in a month or so when the QUAD CORE iPAD 3 Ships.
How many Kindle Fires did Amazon ship during the last few months of 2011? The online retailer isn't saying, but ask Jordan Rohan, analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, a broker, and he'll put the figure at 6m units. No wonder Google is said to be worried about it. Amazon is expected to reveal the actual number of Kindle Fires it sold …
For a lot of people, it is features not spec's that they want. Hence, the ability to be entertained by their tablet, not wank over the number of cores.
That is why the Fire is such a success, it is providing what people want. Their media, is a convenient form factor.
Fanboi because Gil, you obviously are..
until Amazon release the KinFart to the world market.
I'm no Fanboi but there is no point comparing market for the iPap to the KinFart when nobody outside the USA can get one.
I'd love an iPap but they are over priced.
The KinFart is the right price (although here it probably won't be) but is not here.
The Andrug devices are so varied that it's difficult to decide which one to buy and which is decent value. So far I am leaning towards the Asus but if the KinFart had been released here they would probably already have won.
I know 5 people who bought Kindles for Jebus Day and to a person they've all been returned. Too small, too slow, not enough features, not an iPad, etc. But mostly it was down to dashed expectations.
So in my (admittedly small) experience, that's 100% return rate. I'm guessing that's not what Amazon were going for.