The Macalope ’s been maintaining that the Kindle Fire is n’t quite in the iPad ’s form , but it turns out Amazondoesn’t agree . The caller ’s comparison page , however , might be a tad misleading . ( Surprise ! )
After noting the conflict in the blind size between the two devices , Amazon helpfully bring :
iPad 2 is 46 % heavier
Well , yes , Amazon . give two items of roughly the same denseness , the larger one will more often than not be heavier .
It ’s comic how Android fan deride the iPhone for not having a larger screen and then Amazon deride the iPad for being heavier — because it has a magnanimous blind .
Amazon oddly take the iPad only has …
movie , shows , songs , game , apps , clip & books from iTunes
Well , yes , other than Pandora , Netflix , and a whole raft of other services . One of which fit by a name that might be familiar to Amazon since it is , in fact , “ Amazon . ”
In addition to Kindle books , you could even use the Amazon Cloud Player to play your Amazon - purchased MP3s on the iPad . While this may be news to Amazon , it ’s still reliable . You totally can . It ’s not a neat user experience , because it ’s not optimized for mobile , but you’re able to do it . candidly , the Macalope think the only thing the service is optimized for in any format is seek to get you to buy more material from Amazon .
But , of track , that ’s what it ’s supposed to do , because that ’s the byplay Amazon is in . Apple , on the other hand , focuses on making masses well-chosen with its user experience so they ’ll buy more aluminum - y goodness from them .
Flash Support : Yes
LOL .
Amazon ’s produce a long listing here , but it ’s still short an particular : cameras . Hmm . How rummy ! How could Amazon have neglected to note that ? Very strange .
If you leave out the ecosystem stuff , the iPad has a larger screen , forward- and back - front cameras , double as much memory , Bluetooth , and longer bombardment life . Is that deserving $ 300 more ? sensible people can deliberate it . wire ’s seen the Kindle Fireand sound out :
The Fire is n’t a dud , but its real - world performance and usefulness couple neither the benchmarks of public expected value , nor the standards go down by the macrocosm ’s best tablets .
Just so ’s you know .
This is why this comparability seems like kind of a fault to the horny one . He wonders if Amazon is n’t work the same kind of error Google is hit with Android — that is , forgetting what business it ’s in .
Amazon ’s goal should be to endeavor to betray as much stuff as possible from Amazon.com and tug as many people into Prime subscriptions as it can , regardless of political platform . Yet , Amazon ’s restricting certain benefits of Prime — such as TV and Kindle lending — to Kindle owners . Now , maybe these are because of contractual obligation to the content providers . And the Macalope ’s indisputable someone in Seattle ’s got a big - ass spreadsheet that indicate how lose as much as$50 clam on each Kindle Firemakes sense . But do n’t forget what it is you do here , Amazon .
