Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
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My guess is that unless reviews of the device are terrible, they will sell like crazy this holiday season. The TouchPad fire sale proved that there are tons of people interested in a tablet but not willing to pay the $4-500 entry price. I expect Amazon will attract millions of them.
>The TouchPad fire sale proved that there are tons of people interested in a tablet but not willing to pay the $4-500 entry price.
The $99 Touchpad is half as much as the Fire and is much as the e-ink Kindle. The Touchpad was also sold at a huge loss.
Sometimes it's best to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Or something like that anyway. The more Marco opens his mouth the more of a fool I think he is.
I enjoyed Build and Analyze (his podcast at 5by5) in the beginning, but he got to the point where he was just being more and more obnoxious.
He's not Gruber, yet he seems to be trying to be Gruber.
Ah well, this is just another of his predictions that has gone wrong.
On the Gruber thing, he has written saying that Gruber is his ideal reader, so yo aren't far off the mark.
I think that as his traffic, profile and software sales have grown, he has lost his humility, which is a bad thing for writing.
I just can't enjoy reading or listening to him anymore.
That strongly suggests that HP could easily have charged more and still moved all the units they wanted to move -- even for a discontinued product running an obscure OS.
What separates Amazon and B&N from Motorola and Samsung is that content sellers don't have to make all their money on the device -- they're really interested in the back end revenue stream from books, music, video, etc. It's the same basic idea as selling gaming consoles as a loss and collecting a toll on all of the game sales for that device.