Review: Amazon Kindle Fire
updated 02:25 am EST, Fri December 9, 2011
Amazon take a late dive into tablet market
After ignoring the tablet market for several years and dismissing color screens as inappropriate for e-book readers, Amazon has finally decided to expand its Kindle lineup to include a proper tablet. The Fire is aimed directly at Barnes & Noble's new Nook Tablet, though both devices are attempting to pull a bit of market share away from Apple's dominant iPad. In our full review, we compare Amazon's tablet to its direct rival and more expensive alternatives.
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That the Kindle Fire is selling
well, does seem to prove Wall Street's point of that consumers will buy practically anything even if the quality is subpar as long as it's cheap enough. Wall Street is already boasting that Amazon has already commoditized the iPad. What's amazing is that a tablet of the quality of the Kindle Fire if it had been sold on it's own merit would likely be collecting dust on some retailer's shelf. It's only the connection with Amazon that make that Kindle Fire sell as well as it has. Jeff Bezos has somehow managed to outsmart Apple yet again.