rare comment

kidrock2199 said:

I still have my 1st gen iPad and it STILL works. I fire it up from time to time just to make sure the battery doesn’t die out permanently. I also still have my iPad 2 and it still works. I skipped the 3 and glad I did cause the 4 was only 6 months behind. But then I’m glad I didn’t get the 4 on day one cause I was able to pick up the 128gb version mid-cycle. It still works, too. I got the 1st gen Air but didn’t like the AIR gap under the screen. It made it feel plasticky. So I traded that one in for the Air 2. I’ll never get another non-laminated screen iPad. I just upgraded to the 10.5” Pro from that Air 2 a month or so ago. Unless I can get great money for these things, I’m just gonna hang onto all of them. 

fasterquieter said:

I bought the previous version for $99. I was very pleased with myself, as I'd have a tablet to take traveling without having to worry about losing it. Traveling with my expensive iPad Pro made me very nervous. Turns out is was just a waste of $99. The volume was too low, the screen had a terrible light leak that drew my eye away from any movie I was trying to watch. It was too dim to see in a bright room. It was painfully slow. Almost felt broken sometimes waiting for the home screen icons to appear. I hated it so much.

The article states that if you don't have enough money then you don't have a choice between this and the iPad. This is true, but I think a third option is to put the extra $150 toward a better phone. I found the Kindle device to be so horrible to use, I used my phone instead. Maybe the faster chip will make this revision worth it, but I doubt it.

ihatescreennames said:

rare comment said:

I'm sure the iPad is better but the article seemed to be more about assertions of superiority rather than presenting examples (save noting the absence of Word). For example, how was email on the Fire? Skype? Maps? I assume that music and videos are about the same but these non-work uses of a tablet seem worth reviewing.

Your questions are reasonable but considering the Fire HD 10 doesn't ship until 10/30 my guess is AI didn't have a hands-on unit to compare. This article seems like mostly a comparison of the specs on paper.