Kindle Fire is Burning Up the Sales Charts – If the numbers can be believed, pre-sales of the new Kindle Fire by Amazon would put it on track to outsell the iPad in first month sales. And that is simply huge. Competing brands have not been able to do anything as impresive. The Kindle fire is the first entrant into the crowded tablet market to take a serious run at Apple’s dominance. What makes it even more impressive is that iPad sales numbers are huge. So to take a run at them right out of the gate is really, really impressive. It begs the question of what will the Kindle Fire 2 be able to do someday?
Apple iPad 2 sales are of course still brisk. But there are pleny of customers to go around, and the christmas sales season is right around the corner. The Kindle Fire has generated a real buzz in the tablet world, and there is no going back. It can be seen as a worthy iPad 2 competitor, a better alternative, or even an iPad 2 killer. Call it what you will, but at $199 it’s burning up the charts.
Comparing the Apple iPad and the Kindle Fire: Would you buy a Kindle Fire at $300 less than the Ipad 2? The answer based sales seems to be an overwhelming yes. So do your homework and make the best choice.
Here are some points to ponder:
1. The Kindle Fire is only $199 fully loaded. Yes you read that right, $199. If that doesn’t make you salivate, you are simply dead. At $199, the iPad 2 is 2.5 times as expensive. (starting at $500) Think about that, for every iPad 2, you could have 2.5 Kindle Fires. 2.5 freakin Kindles for every iPad2. That’s not some lame 10% discount. That’s you buy one, I’ll give you another, and a crisp $100 bill to go gambling or to the nudie bar with. I don’t know about you, but I’ll take the 2 Kindle Fires and head to the nudie bar and get a private dance with my favorite dancer Porsche.
2. More content, more content, more content. Content is king. The iPad may be king of apps, but Kindle Fire lays it out cold when it comes to content. The Kindle Fire will have access to 18+ million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books on Amazon’s world class content network. Apple doesn’t publish how much content they have, but anecdotally it appears to be much less. And you can rent and stream tens of thousands of movies and TV shows. And it appears that Amazon’s content network is far from done growing.
3. Storage. Apple fan boys will say that the iPad 2 has twice as much storage. Well technically they are right. But the Kindle Fire also gives you unlimited cloud storage on Amazon’s cloud server bank. That’s right I said unlimited. As in all you can eat. Ad ti’s backed up and supported by Amazon’s world class network. Drop your overpriced iPad 2 in a puddle and I’m going to laugh at you. As in you’re a dumbass. You just lost a $500 bill, and all your stored content. I’ll loan you my Kindle Fire though cause I have a spare! lol.
4. Apps. Lets just say if you buy apps to keep track of the last time your bowels moved, you might like the iPad 2 better. Yes they have apps for virtally everything. But it’s a totalitarian closed system. Amazon has a semi closed system where only the best of the Android apps will be there. So you won’t have to sift through tons of useless and/or dangerous apps like the Android totally open system. Hopefully it will be the best of both worlds.
5. Easy to hold. At ten inches the iPad is bigger than the Kindle Fire. But try and hold it in one hand. The Kindle Fire is 30% lighter to boot. So you really could hold it in one hand all day.
For $300 less, the Kindle Fire is a game changer. The Kindle Fire goes on sale Nov. 15 for $199.