It is amazing Amazon is doing what Google couldn't do: Sell tablets.
What is even more amazing is Amazon using a forked version of Android and having its own Appstore.
I am wondering how long it will take Samsung to start flooding the market with tablets in an attempt to regain the number 2 spot.
I hope they don't for the sake of humanity. Seriously, if you ever used one (edit: Amazon Tablet), the clunkiness, the sluggishness and the overall bad experience are just enough to throw it to the wall and then you wonder how you ended up wasting your money (regardless how little it costed you) and your time for that. Might as well get the cheapest iPad available which will guarantee you a premium experience - and more importantly your sanity.
It is amazing Amazon is doing what Google couldn't do: Sell tablets.
What is even more amazing is Amazon using a forked version of Android and having its own Appstore.
I am wondering how long it will take Samsung to start flooding the market with tablets in an attempt to regain the number 2 spot.
I hope they don't for the sake of humanity. Seriously, if you ever used one (edit: Amazon Tablet), the clunkiness, the sluggishness and the overall bad experience are just enough to throw it to the wall and then you wonder how you ended up wasting your money (regardless how little it costed you) and your time for that. Might as well get the cheapest iPad available which will guarantee you a premium experience - and more importantly your sanity.
amazon sold their tablets just to sell their kindle books and promote their shop.
I got my kindle fire for fitting 4 michelin tyres in an ATS euromaster garage.
I never got to make any use out of it, the non-physical home button doesn't work because the cpu isn't powerful enough for the instant response like in the ipads or the premum android devices. The lag just makes it horrible to use.
Kindle got #2 spot in volumes sold because they're so cheap, some people got them for next to nothing as part of promo.
It is amazing Amazon is doing what Google couldn't do: Sell tablets.
What is even more amazing is Amazon using a forked version of Android and having its own Appstore.
I am wondering how long it will take Samsung to start flooding the market with tablets in an attempt to regain the number 2 spot.
4% decline in overall market. Apple grows and Amazon gained mostly at the expense of "other". I wonder if it was by preferencing their own product in their own market place.
Ipad is the best tablet all around. Amazon tablet market share is only due to dirt cheap price.
That, and there's a whole lot of people who don't need anything more capable than an Amazon tablet. All they do is browse the internet, visit Facebook or whatever, check email and pay bills, read their books, and play a few relatively simple games. No one really needs an iPad to do those things.
True. The iPad Pro is overkill for casual users. But the cost of the iPads on the low end is pretty darn good. But I think the money spent on even the entry level iPad is smarter than the savings buying into a Fire as the Fires just don’t last. The build quality is so low that it’s practically throw away tech. Can you even get a full year of use? 2? But I agree that if the goal is to just have some technology price allows for the Fire models to win. But I don’t think they inspire people to invest in the platform in a meaningful way. Ad supported technology does have a market.
There are many price points on the Amazon tablets and during some sales throughout the year, you can get an 7' or 8" Fire Tablet for $20. So that is part of the number you see on year-to-year increases. Also, many people buy the cheap $20 units to use as remote controllers for devices or services, and not for typical uses like internet/email/etc. SONOS controller, security cam controllers, etc. A friend uses one mounted to the wall to control his saltwater aquarium system. I have those all over the house to control our SONOS system. For $20, it's a no-brainer. In that way, it's not really a direct comparison.
Do you and your friend give these devices open access to the internet? i.e. do you connect them to your wifi without any kind of dedicated firewall or other protection?
I'm genuinely curious, because if these devices can perform their function without open access to the internet, then they sound perfect for all kinds of tasks like this, and I wholeheartedly hope that's the case. Unfortunately, what I've seen more of, is the devices requiring internet access (not just local network access, which can be safely locked by firewalling the local subnet), often for no real reason other than they want to be able to chat back and forth with the home office and/or China and/or hacker networks, etc.
Everyone needs to remember, when you hook up *any* device inside your network to the open internet, you're not just giving it the ability to what you want it to do, you're increasing the attack surface inside your home network. Most of these cheap devices have little-to-no security out of the package, and probably not much if anything in the way of security updates over time. Giving these kinds of devices access to the open internet means that they are a security risk to your home. One that gets more dangerous over time.
Lest anyone think this isn't a real issue, remember Mirai? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware) There have been a lot of variants that have appeared over time. Take a look at the Shodan search engine for a small glimpse at this world.
It's not just a matter of the device getting hacked, it's a matter of what hackers can do with your device once they get control.
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