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A svelte 9” or 10” Kindle Fire would significantly accelerate market dynamics in this context
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said during his company’s recent earnings call that iPad sales haven’t really been affected by the Kindle Fire from Amazon, which is no doubt contributing heavily to the success of Android tablets. It’s also likely that the Nook Color and Nook Tablet from Barnes & Noble are included in the Android figures. Instead, Cook admitted, the iPad has had some cannibalization effect on sales of Macs and he predicted that one day, the tablet market will be larger in volume than the PC market.
PC Makers Should Fear Amazon’s Android Gains – Businessweek
PC Makers Should Fear Amazon’s Android Gains – Businessweek
An impressive start for the Kindle Fire
McCourt had been looking for iPad shipments of 16 million. Now he thinks that they’ll top out at 13 million, and that a portion of that shortfall is due to the Fire. “Based on data from Amazon, we believe the Amazon Fire likely sold 4-5 million units this holiday season, which probably means maybe 1-2 million cannibalized iPad sales at most,” McCourt wrote in a note to clients.
So, not a big hit to iPad sales, but a hit just the same. According to McCourt, this isn’t a sign of some big shift, but more a reflection of the difference in price between the two devices.
… Continue reading: Kindle Fire May Have Pared iPad Holiday Sales by a Couple Million – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Santalytics
December’s holiday season brought with it record sales for Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet. No surprise, then, that Internet traffic from the device spiked on Christmas day, as Santa’s good little boys and girls fired their Fires up for the first time.
According to Millennial Media, ad requests on its network from the Fire increased 261 percent on December 25th and another 46 percent on the 26th.
Kindle Fire Ad Requests Increased 261 Percent on Christmas Day – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Kindle Fire Ad Requests Increased 261 Percent on Christmas Day – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Final paragraphs of David Pogue’s take on Kindle Fire + updated OS
Still, today’s software update erases the stubbornness that characterized the original Fire software.
Now, if you’re in the market for a tablet, the Fire isn’t the only game in town. Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet ($250) has charms of its own (like much sharper Netflix movie playback), and of course the iPad costs a lot more ($500) but also does a lot more and shows a lot more on its bigger screen.
But if you’re already a happy member of Amazon’s ecosystem — music store, bookstore, movie store — then the Kindle Fire may now be calling your… Continue reading: Amazon Makes the Fire Less Balky – NYTimes.com
By the time the press and punditry have reached something close to consensus on Amazon’s goals for the initial Kindle Fire, there will probably be several new devices in the product family
Now, neither of us are given to conspiracy theories, hence our use of conditional verb tenses. But it’s still striking that despite the device’s flaws, analysts are maintaining their predictions that Amazon will move three to five million units this quarter. And despite the device’s flaws–indeed, to a certain extent, because of them–the Fire will drive more and more purchasing on Amazon.com. All of which may wind up making the Fire one of the most lucrative mediocre products in history.
Kindle Fire: the Best Disappointment… Continue reading: Kindle Fire: the Best Disappointment Ever? – Technology Review
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