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  • Apple's Mac, iPad top PC & tablet satisfaction, but Amazon & Samsung close behind

    claire1 said:
    What would Amazon and Samsung customers think if they knew their knockoff devices were selling their personal data?

    All these little jabs at Amazon ("just a glorified book reader," "eating from the dumpster") show that half a decade later and the tech nerds still fail to get Amazon's tablet business. You're comparing how the New England Patriots play football with how the Cleveland Cavaliers play basketball. They're two different things. A person buys an Amazon tablet for something different than why they buy an iPad. In fact, I would venture to say that many, many Fire tablets are owned by people who also own another tablet. The Fire tablet is a super easy terminal / window into Amazon products . It's one of the most user-friendly ways to consume Kindle books, Audible audiobooks, Prime videos, Kindle magazines....and one of the most affordable "smart displays" on the market, utilizing Alexa and the "Echo Show" UI owned by Amazon. A person would not expect to pay $600 for a metal or glass Amazon terminal. And of course, Amazon makes a ton of money, not directly but indirectly because of the tablets. It's a different sort of device altogether that, when it's taken off it's Alexa Show Mode Dock, just happens to also look like a tablet. Fire tablets are not competing with iPads any more than your TV is.

    Fire tablets are just iPad knockoffs.

    Stop trying to be deep about it. 
    I suppose the Apple Homepod is an Echo knockoff...but with a far inferior AI at its core?  Let's look at the ways the Fire tablet is unique from an iPad:  1) Widescreen format for widescreen video, 2) SD card slot, 3) It becomes a "smart display" when you ask it to "turn on show mode," it reads books and magazine articles out loud to you, even if you don't have an audio-book version of it, just by a simple click within the Kindle app, it displays thumbnails of your magazines on your home screen and lets you know immediately if you have a new issue by showing a picture of the new magazine's cover, it shows you related content to the books or videos or magazines you've already downloaded, right on the home screens.  All of these things that are unique to the Fire tablet are related to what I said about it being basically a window into Amazon services and content.
    gatorguy