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Say what you want about Amazon's Kindle Fire, thanks to that $199 price tag, the thing is selling like crazy.

"For the third week in a row, customers are purchasing well over 1 million Kindle devices per week, and Kindle Fire remains the #1 bestselling, most gifted, and most wished for product across the millions of items available on Amazon.com since its introduction 11 weeks ago," the company said.
 
Here's what I have to say. It's a fad. I hear multiple people say they bought a tablet and it sits for weeks after they stop playing with it to try to figure out what it's good for.

But don't call me a hater just yet. I commute to work on a bus and plan on getting a regular Kindle someday. It's just tablets that I'm not a fan of.
 
Wouldn't it be good if some where down the road all these companies were charged with price fixing. It doesn't matter what store anywhere in Canada or the USA, the entry level pads except for Apple are all at the same price $499. I wont buy one because their in the same league as the cell phone, dirt cheap to produce, and priced way to high, I wonder if this has anything to do with them cutting their throats when the netbook came out and they admitted as much,and now with the marketing hype and using Apple as their lead in, their recovering some of their losses .
 
Wouldn't it be good if some where down the road all these companies were charged with price fixing.

I found a 10" netbook for $99 recently, there's definitely something going as these netbooks have faster cpu's, more ram/hd space and whatnot and cost less than tablets with hardware that could proabably only run winxp at best.
 
$99 for a 10" tablet? I'd be willing to bet it was resistive and therefore junk.
 
Ahh sorry, I see you said netbook, no I have seen some cheap netbooks. someone got a pair for their grandkids. I felt bad telling them they were cheap chinese trash. They had Windows CE on them...
 
I'd say it's a phase... not a fad...
Gots me a $100 Nook Color rooted to CM7 and it's quickly becoming a nearly indispensable tool... but mainly as an ereader that's somewhat capable at IT connectivity and keeping boredom induced narcolepsy at bay. I'm working on tethering to a Hackberry (mandated by work) and it'll truly be a swiss army IT device when away from the office. That being said... at home or away, if I feel I'll be using it more than 40min I'll just go grab a laptop. A $200 jailed Amazon (or other) device would be next to useless and a $500 Droid tablet is a netbook with a cumbersome interface.
Personally, tablets seem to be a stop-gap while we wait for ultrabooks to reach tablet prices.
 
I wont buy one because their in the same league as the cell phone, dirt cheap to produce, and priced way to high

They aren't as cheap to produce as you think when they are using high quality IPS displays.
 
Here's what I have to say. It's a fad. I hear multiple people say they bought a tablet and it sits for weeks after they stop playing with it to try to figure out what it's good for.

But don't call me a hater just yet. I commute to work on a bus and plan on getting a regular Kindle someday. It's just tablets that I'm not a fan of.

Agreed. I got two touchpads on the first go round of the fire sale, about a week apart. It only took a week for me to realize that our family would barely use one, much less two of them. So, i sold the second one, and the other one is a very nice paper weight. I have an iPhone, I don't need a tablet.
 
Personally, tablets seem to be a stop-gap while we wait for ultrabooks to reach tablet prices.

The best Windows tablets ARE ultrabooks, they're based on the same compute hardware. With a keyboard dock you have an everything device. Tablets have been around far longer than the iPad and are here to stay.

I've been tempted to get a Fire, not a bad device for the price. It can chug and the web browsing experience isn't very impressive with the stock OS.
 
I like my fire. It has me reading again. However I would buy a kindle touch instead of I could do it over again.
 
Here's what I have to say. It's a fad. I hear multiple people say they bought a tablet and it sits for weeks after they stop playing with it to try to figure out what it's good for.

But don't call me a hater just yet. I commute to work on a bus and plan on getting a regular Kindle someday. It's just tablets that I'm not a fan of.

i thought it was a fad 2 years ago, now its quite beyond it.

The level of tablet use ive seen by normal consumers has become astounding. Even the enterprise level i see more and more of these devices being used.
 
I had an iPad2, but figured I could use the $500 instead (plus get the most value for it before the iPad3 comes out). I bought a Kindle Fire to replace it from a local store. I didn't even open it. I took it back the next day and figured I didn't really need to spend $200 on a tablet. I ended up picking up a chinese tablet for $140 with a 1.5Ghz processor and Mali 400 graphics. I would have gotten another Nook Color, but I couldn't find a good deal on one.
 
Just bought one for my mom for christmas, I'm hoping that I'll like it enough to warrant buying another for myself after Jan.
 
Another user of nook color ($150 refurbished) with CM7 or other OS it's pretty damn slick I must say... I get plenty of use out of it
 
Tablets aren't for you. They are for the billions of people who don't know how to use a computer or are afraid to use one. You may not understand why they would want to use a tablet any more than they understand why you would want to use a desktop PC, but that doesn't stop them from vastly outnumbering you.

Global sales of desktop PCs was about 350 million in 2010. Over 60 million tablets were sold in 2011. This is no fad. It is leading some to predict that "use of a desktop PC will dwindle to only 4-6 percent of computer users", while others project that tablet sales will hit 320 million units per year by 2015.

You may scoff at such crazy high sales numbers for tablets. That reminds me of the way people scoffed at the idea that Blizzard's MMO could survive financially in a 1-million-player market. Again I emphasize that tablets are not being sold to our type; they are being sold to everyone else, and we are a very small minority.
 
IPersonally, tablets seem to be a stop-gap while we wait for ultrabooks to reach tablet prices.

I think you got it backardss. Ultrabooks seems to be stop-gap until tablets can replace traditional laptops at a cost less than $500. The ASUS transformer (that type of system), I think, is the future.
 
Amazon Selling Kindle Fire at a Loss?
Research firm iSuppli estimates that each Kindle Fire costs Amazon $201.70, resulting in a whopping $2.70 loss for each unit sold. Amazon’s betting you’ll use the Kindle Fire to buy at least $2.70 worth of books, apps, movies, music and products, which isn’t a huge gamble.



Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/11/18...laxy-nexus-playbook-price-cuts/#ixzz1gfqlBCGb

And I'm sure this also accounts for the all the R&D that went into, engineering, and all the PR as well. :rolleyes:

Yes, its not a huge gamble, but they are pretty much giving it away. I got one for the wife and its great, she loves it.
 
I think you got it backardss. Ultrabooks seems to be stop-gap until tablets can replace traditional laptops at a cost less than $500. The ASUS transformer (that type of system), I think, is the future.

We're already seeing this with Windows tablets today. Next year there should be a slew of x86 Windows 8 tablets at this price point though they'll be running Atoms and lower end AMD CPUs at that price. But at the upper end you'll see Ivy Bridge ULV tablets that will overlap ultrabooks in price.

Whether you like Windows 8 or not, it will redefine what tablets can do. the best Windows 8 tablets will be a be as fast and capable as ultrabooks, I imagine there'll be ultrabooks with touchscreens and keyboard dockable tablets.
 
I had a $50 amazon gift card so I picked up a fire. seems easy enough to root and unroot if needed and a decent development community behind it.

i'll probably only use it to read comics though when im watching tv.
 
Whether you like Windows 8 or not, it will redefine what tablets can do. the best Windows 8 tablets will be a be as fast and capable as ultrabooks, I imagine there'll be ultrabooks with touchscreens and keyboard dockable tablets.

Maybe I do got it bakardss... but far as i can reckon... dem tablets and ultras both be puters...difference is interface and speed.
Thus, reason would suggest that any tablet docked to a keyboard it'll fold into has actually transformed into a net/ultrabook... and vice versa.
UltraTabletBooks FTW
 
Bought my girlfriend a Kindle Touch for her birthday, and she hasn't put it down since. I've got my books on there too. It rules. Well worth 99$
 
have you tried messing around with the experimental browser on it? it work for checking non flash sites
 
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