It’s official: the Kindle Fire has dethroned all eighteen variations of the iPad for sale at Best Buy as the number one selling tablet device. Of course, it has a lot to do with the fact that the Fire is a.) brand new and b.) half to a third of the cost – but it’s impressive, regardless.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Also half the size too. The two are not direct competitors.
Because a quart of milk and a gallon of milk are not direct competitors either.
Your comment makes no sense. Then pickup trucks and heavy duty dump trucks are direct competitors too? They both have the capability to haul shit around, right? Let’s extrapolate this into infinity. Your “logic” is fun to play with.
My milk bottle would kick your milk bottles ass.
fuck all comparisons mean fuck all
Fine, let’s bring this back into the electronic realm. Are you saying that a 32″ lcd tv and a 42″ lcd tv are not direct competitors simply because the sizes are different? That was your only reason for saying the fire and the ipad were not direct competitors. Most people only buy 32″ because they cannot afford the 42″.
You are the one with flawed logic, a dump truck and a pickup truck have far more differences than just size, moron. My milk analogy was sound because the only difference is the size of the container.
Your mouth, my dick.
“Your mouth, my dick.”
You just won’t quit with the size comparisons.
There are many more differences between the Kindle Fire and iPad besides the size, though you seem to be fixated on my original comment. I’m sure another unrelated analogy followed with a gay sex reference will make you feel like you’ve won the argument. Let’s hear what you got.
I think milk is also outselling the ipad and ipad 2 combined.
Must be because of their marketing and design team
In NH where I live Bud Light 12 packs are the number one grocery item every year, outselling milk and eggs and iPad2 and Kindle fire.
Combine all eighteen variations into one total sales figure and I’ll bet the iPad is outpacing the Fire. Given the marginal at best reviews for the Fire though…I am a little surprised it’s selling as well as it is.
It’s being reviewed largely based on the Kindle OS that’s currently installed. Once a fully functional root is achieved (not that it hasn’t already happened), it will be the single best sub-$400 tablet on the market.
I’m really not all that surprised. I think a lot of people appreciate the price and (relative to Apple) simplicity of Amazon’s offering. If they can get the readability of the Fire on par to the base Kindle, I’ll be making the purchase too.
@santaliqueur
Would you say the PSP and the DS are not direct competitors? (They are). Different sizes, different features, different types of games, yet they still compete for the exact same handheld gaming market space. The ipad and kindle fire are alike in this way, and they are very much direct competitors along with the galaxy tab, playbook, and some others. Prove me wrong. And as a reminder, having different apps or slightly different features doesn’t make them non-competitors because they are built for the same purpose and they are going after the same customers so don’t go making some “DURR HURR IPAD HAZ CAMRA ITZ NOT SAYM” comment.
A dump truck and a pick-up truck are NOTHING ALIKE. They don’t compete for the same market, they don’t have the same features, etc… One of them is a consumer level vehicle that can be used as a daily driver and a work truck and has a lot of creature comfort options. The other is a commercial grade vehicle with only one purpose, to transport and quickly drop it’s payloads. Your analogy was quite poor.
And let me go ahead and beat you to the punch here. Yes, the DS and PSP are direct competitors. If they weren’t, why would Nintendo be so quick to drop the price of the 3ds when Sony announced the pricing for the vita?