Comments on: Kindle Fire heat may be cooling passion for iPads

By: Narayanan

Narayanan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:19:43 +0000

The survey clearly mentions is for early adopters. Geez, I wonder how many iPad early adopters are still left to draw any conclusions.

Yes, there are people for whom the $500 iPad was too high for their use case. Clearly we are comparing As and Os.

By: Sveyo World

Sveyo World — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:44:43 +0000

I myself like the Kindle Fire best. Kindle and Nook stand out form the crowd because they are very focused on what are they made for on first place – reading books, articles, docs and so on. But in case you need more than that – they can manage that as well. The good thing is that they are not trying to be laptops like some other tablets. You are welcome to check our Kindle Fire and NOOK tablet reviews at http://bit.ly/qd6PxN Thank you :)

By: Bodynsoil

Bodynsoil — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:38:29 +0000

Great post and insight into the release of the Kindle Fire, I am anxiously awaiting mine. I have been looking at and researching tablet computers for a long time, my only use would be for reading and internet connectivity. I believe the answer, for me at least, is the Kindle Fire, I can’t wait to get it into my hands for a trial and blog review. Having used an IPad recently I could see how that unit is more overkill on what it can do vs. what most would be using it for. As a reader I can quickly recoop the purchase price of the Fire and like the size of the unit over the IPad as well.

By: PXLated

PXLated — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:14:03 +0000

The key phrase = “it will have to prove itself in the market”.
Lots of speculation. Will be interesting to see how it does. Would bet that if it does ok, Apple will respond. After all, they do have a micro iPad already, the iPod Touch. It just needs a medium sized brother. ;-)

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:54:16 +0000

The Fire and Nook Tablet, though, don’t compete on feature richness or in the breadth of things one can install on them. That’s fine, they’re significantly less expensive, but if you want a full on tablet that can install apps for almost anything, you want an iPad, not a Nook or Fire. I had a Nook Color, then bought an iPad 2. The NC is a great little tablet if someone wants a device that is primarily for reading with a little light web browsing and maybe some games. However, the size, power and locked down implementation of Android made it significantly less capable than the iPad2. Again, given the price differential, there’s nothing wrong with this at all, but if people are expecting to get iPad2 level features with a smaller screen for under half the price, they’ll be disappointed.

What these do, though, is bring tablets into more homes that simply never would spend $500 for an iPad. People will get used to them, I imagine a lot of homes will have a couple laying around for people to use while watching TV or going off to read. That’s a good thing.