The Amazon Kindle Fire is quite simply the iPad 2′s worst nightmare. This is the kind of thing that Steve Jobs worried about before his untimely passing. (RIP) A competent competitor comes out with a product that is far cheaper, and still beats the iPad’s features. Want proof? You got it..
Screen – Apple 9.7″/Fire advanced 7″. But the smaller size was done so you could hold the thing in one hand. It’s plenty big enough for video.
Memory – Apple 16 Gb/Fire 8Gb, but Amazon throws in unlimited cloud storage. Drop your iPad in a puddle and it’s all gone. Not with the Fire.
Price – as mentioned the Fire is $300 dollars cheaper.
Wifi – both have it.
3g – What a joke. Who needs it and do you want to pay and extra $130 for it and $20 a month? Buy a second Fire with the savings, lol
Weight – Apple a 21 ounce brick. Fire a svelte 14 ounces.
iTunes – Whatever. Amazon has the world’s largest content network bar one, and that includes more music than you can afford.
OS and processor – similar speed but Amazon uses their google beating cloud technology to assist in downloads. Basically handling the cacheing of files. It’s space age stuff. Look for it on more and more mobile devices.
Browser – Apple uses the old Safari. Fire uses a custom built lightweight Silk browser purpose built for the Fire. And unlike the iPad it plays youtube video without and app.
Now I am not saying that millions of iPad 2′s won’t be sold. There are legions of apple fan boys and girls who would buy and iAnything if it cost $10,000 and was a complete piece of crap. But for those of us that simply demand some value along with the pomp, the Amazon Kindle Fire just blows the iPad 2 away. Get an iPhone, but leave the tablet to Amazon I am afraid.
And thanks in advance when and if you drop and break your Amazon Kindle Fire (not likely since it’s easy to hold unlike the silly iPad). You can go and get another one (and half of a third one) for the same price as one iPad. If you really think about it the iPad should be called the iRipoff.
For the iPad to be 2.5 times better than the Kindle Fire, it would have to do stuff like in the evo vs. iphone video on youtube. Where the kid says “it grants three wishes even if one of the wishes is for an iPhone” and the fan girl says she doesn’t care. Or “it transforms into a jet and flies you to an island”. But alas the overpriced iPad 2 doesn’t even match the specs of the Kindle Fire and the little booger costs 2.5 times more. Wtf is that all about? 2.5 times more and it’s not as good? But it’s an apple you say? Well I can say my diet soda is an apple, and try and sell it to you for $500, and you wouldn’t fall for that. So why in the hell would you fall for Apple’s fan boy “we;re simply cool” marketing ploy. Amazon is plenty cool, and you won’t ever be accused of being a douchy apple fanboy/girl to boot. So do yourself a favor and get the new Kindle Fire and for $300 buy yourself a hooker or something. For $300 you can get like 3 hookers and have the most fantastic 4 way ever. Use your Mac to stream it to adult friend finder (not that I have ever done that) and have something to talk about when you are older. Or get an iPad 2 and be a douchebag who overpaid. Your choice. Here is a nice Kindle Fire video on YT. (iPad owners shouldn’t watch as it will just bum you out.