Amazon taunts Apple's new iPads, advertises smaller Kindle Fire HDX as 'lighter than Air'

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  • Reply 61 of 139
    Samsung, Microsoft and now Amazon.. Resorting to missinformation and misleading statements to compete ...
    Pathetic!
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  • Reply 62 of 139
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by icoco3 View Post

     

    Definitive proof that the Fire HDX is NOT "lighter" than Air

     

    Apple Ipad 9.7" WiFi 16 gig - WINNER

     

    Size:          17.9916 cubic inches

    Weight:       0.0376393305439331 grams\cubic inch

     

    Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" WiFi 16gig - LOSER

     

    Size:          17.4902 cubic inches

    Weight:       0.0467652406417112 grams\cubic inch


    lol Those are some serious significant digits! 

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  • Reply 63 of 139
    512ke512ke Posts: 782member

    My smaller thing weighs a tiny bit less than your bigger thing.

     

    Great ad campaign lol.

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  • Reply 64 of 139
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    Originally Posted by allenbf View Post



    The App Store is much lighter than Apple's, too.



    Still, it's a fairly clever ad even if comparing apples and oranges.

    in the end…  a low end Amazon offering is what Apple wants

     

    IT's a long game play.

     

    Apple is staking a high function portable tablet computer… that can do everything 'okay' and most things 'well' and some things 'best in class'

     

    The key is Apple is selling 'the one' tablet.

     

    Amazon is selling 'a single function tablet'   You read a book, you get some amazon music… you're a Amazon prime addict.   You pop down $150… get it in a couple days… and you do your thing…. and then you realize that to do 'something else'  you need another tablet, or learn how somehow get android apps to work on your tablet, and then you realize those are really crappy options.   Then you see an iPad, realize that the 'Amazon' experience is 'okay' and you have 2.5 options

    1) buy a non-amazon crap tablet to pair with your kindle reader

    2) buy an iPad to pair with your kindle reader

    2.5) buy an iPad ou sell your kindle reader, and realize that to 10% of the time you're outside, it's not that bad of a reading experience.

     

    In the long game, Apple wants people who are scared to spend $500 to 'try' a tablet… because they realize that 80% of non-apple Tablet buyers 'want' an iPad as their 'next tablet.'   

     

    Apple is like chinese dynasties it's looking far beyond this quarter's sales It's looking 2 years down the road.

     

    This year it's all about killing MS Surface and Win 8.1. and netbooks and stuff like that.   The fact that the TCO of ownership of mac laptops just went down another $40-60, let alone the hassle of installing Win 8 (or 9 or whatever… all I know is my wife can install Mavericks… I know a lot of 'PC gurus' who have punted and bought a new PC Win 8 installed, and kept their Win7 system around, as it's a heckuva lot cheaper when you look at the time spent installing and cost of the SW.

     

    This is Richard Stallman's game plan (except for the closed source;-)...

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  • Reply 65 of 139
    Pretty clever ad
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  • Reply 66 of 139
    icoco3icoco3 Posts: 1,474member
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    Originally Posted by mstone View Post

     

    lol Those are some serious significant digits! 


     

    Except I messed them up....HAHA  Too many years since math class.  Am redoing the post as the HDX is actually lighter per square inch than the IPad.

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  • Reply 67 of 139
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by 512ke View Post

     

    My smaller thing weighs a tiny bit less than your bigger thing.

     

    Great ad campaign lol.


    It is not all bad. It really depends on what matches your needs. If weight is a significant factor and your primary purpose for buying it is to watch movies and read books, then the fabulous Apple ecosystem, high quality materials, better resale value, etc. might not be as important to you as weight and price.

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  • Reply 68 of 139
    Yes shame that the Kindles are more proprietary than iOS devices. Essentially the Kindles are a shopfront for Amazon rather than a general purpose tablet.

    As devices they aren't at all bad but the experience is very much centred on buying stuff and you can never get rid of the blasted adverts.
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  • Reply 69 of 139
    jungmarkjungmark Posts: 6,928member
    icoco3 wrote: »
    Definitive proof that the Fire HDX IS "lighter" than Air

    Apple Ipad 9.7" WiFi 16 gig- LOSER
    9.4" x 6.6" x 0.29"  478 grams

    Size:          17.9916 cubic inches
    Weight:       26.56795393405812 grams\cubic inch

    Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" WiFi 16gig - WINNER
    9.1" x 6.2" x 0.31"  374 grams

    Size:          17.4902 cubic inches
    Weight:       21.38340327726384 grams\cubic inch

    And it's about an inch (diagonally) shorter. Plus you are using way too many sig figs for density.
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  • Reply 70 of 139
    icoco3 wrote: »
    Except I messed them up....HAHA  Too many years since math class.  Am redoing the post as the HDX is actually lighter per square inch than the IPad.

    First of all you can't measure in "square" inches, you have to measure in cubic inches. Perhaps that's what you meant. Secondly a measure of "weight per unit volume" is actually called "density". Amazon never claimed their products were less dense, but that they were lighter. And perhaps they are technically right when comparing the products that they mentioned. But someone who buys their "lighter than Air" product may be eligible for a class action suit against Amazon for implying the products were also the same size. Their ad confused me in that regard. I think consumers would have a good case.
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  • Reply 71 of 139

    After reading The Everything Store (for who doesn't know, it's the story of Amazon and Bezos, it was just released a few days ago) I can say I am definitely not surprised by Amazon with this move. This is their style of doing business. No wonder more and more European countries impose restrictions on Amazon practices. The book really left a very bitter taste and disappointment, and I think my days shopping with Amazon are over. I would rather pay the usual 10-15% more for a product than buying anything on Amazon or made by Amazon ever again.

     

    Ironically, the book was actually cheaper on iBooks than on Kindle.

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  • Reply 72 of 139
    ...and my phone is lighter than a Kindle HD (You know, since it too has a smaller screen). What's your point, Amazon?
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  • Reply 73 of 139
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    [irrelevancies]

     

    Guys, find a room, wouldja?  You're just embarrassing yourselves.

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  • Reply 74 of 139
    tzeshantzeshan Posts: 2,351member
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    Originally Posted by nagromme View Post



    And it's slower than the iPad to boot, while lacking the quality app selection!



    I love Kindle... on my iPad.



    I use Kindle on my iPad too.  Its dictionary is worse than iBooks.

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  • Reply 75 of 139
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    Guys, find a room, wouldja?  You're just embarrassing yourselves.


    I find your sexual innuendo offensive and I'm reporting it. This is a technical discussion forum. Not your weird orgy fantasy. 

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  • Reply 76 of 139
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    I find your sexual innuendo offensive and I'm reporting it. This is a technical discussion forum. Not your weird orgy fantasy. 




    Apparently you can't distinguish euphemism.  Note that you're the one that played that card, not me.

    And yet the question remains: why are you here?

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  • Reply 77 of 139
    jungmarkjungmark Posts: 6,928member
    I find your sexual innuendo offensive and I'm reporting it. This is a technical discussion forum. Not your weird orgy fantasy. 

    I see nothing sexual in that post. Maybe your mind is in the gutter. I figured he meant you guys can collaborate on Apple-hating in a conference room.
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  • Reply 78 of 139
    Originally Posted by ScottWilson View Post

    I find your sexual innuendo offensive and I'm reporting it. This is a technical discussion forum. Not your weird orgy fantasy. 

     

    Shut up, C|Net whore.

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  • Reply 79 of 139
    icoco3icoco3 Posts: 1,474member
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    Originally Posted by 22July2013 View Post





    First of all you can't measure in "square" inches, you have to measure in cubic inches. Perhaps that's what you meant. ...

    My original post did use cubic inches and has been updated with more information.

     

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    Originally Posted by 22July2013 View Post





    ..Perhaps that's what you meant. Secondly a measure of "weight per unit volume" is actually called "density". ...



    This isn't a physics exam, smile some.

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  • Reply 80 of 139

    I've tried those 'bigger' phones and Android in the shop just yesterday.  They're awful.  Just dreadful.  The software is generally clunky and difficult to use.  Just poor.  Really average stuff.  The machine quality isn't bad.  But they're no match for Apple's hardware.

     

    Lemon Bon Bon.

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