Apple has become a world renowned manufacturer and retailer of innovative electronic s from Macbooks to IPhones, and especially the IPad, a product that has had multiple manufacturers rushing to design and create a tablet as if not more superior.
Amazon, an online retailer known for their e-reader, the Amazon Kindle, a revolutionary device in electronic reading, have designed and announced the release of their own tablet, the Kindle Fire. But what sets the Kindle Fire apart from other greatly reviewed tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Asus Eee Pad Transformer? Its price, the Kindle Fire’s preorder price today is $199, 2/5th of the price of either the Ipad or the Samsung Galaxy. With the announcement of the Kindle Fire, Amazon has included the Amazon Cloud storage, allowing the user to save and use items from other devices, including their computer.
As well as using their previous technology of Whispersync to make the device truly wireless. When in the use of a wireless network, when purchasing an item such as a book on amazon, Whispersync automatically loads the product onto any Kindle Product, something no other tablet has ever done before, and all this including watching movies, listening to songs, and web browsing can all be accessed in the time frame of 8 hours, outgunning the IPAD by two hours.
What Apple boasted with the IPad was that it is a portable device that you can use anywhere, but is it really? It’s just as portable as a Macbook, it can’t fit it your pocket like their IPods and IPhones. But the Kindle Fire is the size of the standard kindle, just about the size of my hand. What Kindle Fire lacks that might disgruntle a few consumers is the lack of an operating system common to other products, Android and OSx. Without a common operating system, p
reviously purchased products cannot be loaded onto the Kindle Fire, it must be repurchased from the Amazon store. Its size could stave away certain prospectors, with a larger screen, it means a larger viewing screen for movies and a more comfortable web browsing experience.
With a lack of the apple store and app store, the amounts of applications available on the Kindle Fire are greatly restricted. When down to brass tax, are you willing to pay $300 for a larger screen, a camera, and a few more applications? After all, the majority of the extra $300 is the brand name, “Apple”, which may seem more important to an Apple fan than the actual product features.
