Since just before the official announcement of the Kindle Fire, and clearly in preparation for the anticipated release, Amazon has been making efforts to beef up their Amazon Instant Video selection. Many of these new acquisitions have even been made part of the Prime Instant Videos library, which allows customers subscribing annually to the Amazon [...]
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Sources have recently reported that Amazon may be about to open up a whole new direction for their Kindle marketing. Before the end of this year we can expect to be seeing the first small store or stores arriving in Seattle. This seems to be intended as a preliminary effort directed at determining the viability [...]
The strength of the Kindle Fire as a tablet tends to be its close integration into Amazon’s web services. Everything from video to eBooks is right there at the touch of a button, integrated seamlessly into your browsing and available practically the second you have an interest in it. In terms of wider functionality, however, [...]
Remember when we were predicting a Kindle Fire launch with multiple tablet sizes to choose from? Well, better late than never. Chad Bartley, a Senior Research Analyst over at Pacific Crest, has predicted that we will be seeing a 9” Kindle Fire before the end of 2012, possibly as early as this summer. Along with [...]
Investors have recently suffered a bit of disappointment as Amazon’s fourth quarter revenue failed to meet expectations. Stocks fell, as a result. The big question is why this was the case. With Amazon saying that the sales of their Kindle line were up 177%, and the Kindle Fire specifically being the best selling product on [...]
Over the past several weeks there has been significant speculation over the possibility of a newer, smaller iPad on the horizon that is intended to compete directly with the Kindle Fire. As much as it sounds plausible when looked at in a certain light, I just fail to see it in the end. There are [...]
Android has seized a greater share of the tablet market than ever before in the last year, with fourth quarter usage of Android tablets up to 39% of the total (up from 29% the previous year). A great deal of this improvement comes as a result of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. With the whole tablet [...]
It comes as no real surprise that Amazon’s bestselling Kindle Fire tablet is going to make the company some money despite estimates that say the hardware is being sold at, or even slightly below, the cost of manufacturing. They basically brought eReading to the mainstream at a time when people barely understood what the idea [...]
