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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Amazon Fire To Take on iPad-Yea like we haven't heard that before!

I first want to say that I'm not writing this because I'm an Apple junkie, ok well I am :). When Amazon announced yesterday that they are entering the Tablet world, there were a lot of speculations going around that this would give iPad a run for it's money. Well in my world, and by that I mean my mind, there will always be people who are Android people and there are iOS people. Since Apple introduced the iPad it amazed the techie world. It was like when man first discovered fire. Then the tablet war began. There have been many, and some have done well. But because of the prices and smaller sizes, they just were considered average. The one that came the closest is the Motorola Zoom, the screen sizes were about the same.  With the Fire, it looks sharp. It's a e-reader on steroids. But from all that I've read, and I've read a lot, it seems all Amazon has done is make a tablet to rival the Nook color. Yeah, it's smaller, but that means it's better for sticking in a pocket, reading one-handed, watching movies in truer widescreen. So people who are shopping for an iPad because it's a great way to watch movies and read books (thanks in part to the iPad's excellent Kindle app), these people might want to save $300 and buy a Kindle Fire instead. But the advent of a hot-selling cheaper Amazon tablet isn't likely to slow the growth of the iPad, which continues to have its own charm, not least of all being a key part of the Apple ecosystem. What it does do is convince people to ignore all of those other tablets that have sprung up since the iPad's launch. The Fire seems to be great because by some people testing it out, it will rival other Android tablets because it is priced lower than all those that came before it, you know the others that were also gonna give iPad a run for it's money. Also Don't let the screen-size numbers fool you, a 7-inch tablet has half the screen real estate of Apple's 10-incher. There's little onboard memory, there are fewer, if any, creative or business apps, there's no camera or microphone. So automatically anyone who chooses the iPad for its ability to create art or music, or manage spreadsheets, or edit photos, they just won't be looking at the Fire. Maybe with Steve Jobs stepping down, we might even get Flash video capability! As I started this out by saying, there will always be Android people and iOS people.

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