dmmarck
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Of the nexus 7? The hardware is over $180. They have zero space to reduce the price at all.
Yup. Very narrow profit margin.
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Of the nexus 7? The hardware is over $180. They have zero space to reduce the price at all.
heavily skinned os, little to no updates, no play store.....
No thanks, I'll pay slightly more for something that is android, not just built on top of it and stripped of the goods.
Yup. Very narrow profit margin.
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These Kindle Fire HDs are probably being sold at a loss.
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Except they have ads on lockscreens and only real purpose is to be a service linking Amazon content.
I know the Nexus was portrayed as that, but for Kindles it's much more so.
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Oh sorry. I was referring to simply hardware costs.
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It really depends how invested you are in the Amazon ecosystem.
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I'm not a penny, with that being said..if I had books or music bought from Amazon, I could easily still read/listen to it on any device I had.
Of the nexus 7? The hardware is over $180. They have zero space to reduce the price at all.
Well the problem is that its being produced by Asus - I don't know who's manufacturing the Kindle or if Amazon is completely controlling that supply chain. If its the latter, as I think, then it takes a large profit-requiring cog out of the chain, so its simply a lot easier to set up a product like the Fire where you can afford to lose money out of the box and make it up on content.
For Google to do that, with Asus as third-party manufacturer, is just simply a more complicated process.
The only reason I the kindle will do better than the n7 is its a house hold name.
The new kindle doesn't even have gps....no thanks
That's a great point. I've never used KF extensively so i wouldn't know but does it have the ability to install:
- Google GPS/Navi
- Google talk (or at least some sort of a video chat app)... although Google talk is used by almost everyone with Google accounts.
- Gmail (or at least a mail app)? It must
- A banking app
- A cloud storage app
- Cloud based contacts app (linked to popular email services)
If not, then this device is extremely limited and I'll be shocked to see it take a serious market share. It wouldn't be a smart investment.
Someone please shed some light on this.
Thanks
IHS iSuppli's analysis of tablet market share also calls into question a dubious stat Amazon released last week. Amazon said the Kindle Fire holds a 22% market share in its nine months on the market -- but IHS iSuppli found that the Kindle Fire never held more than a 14% share, and sales have slipped significantly in recent months.
Google needs to really step up its game in its ecosystem to compete. They also need to market and advertise the Nexus 7 more. Showcase it more to the masses.
The only good thing I hope comes from the new kindle fires would be for developers to develop more tablet apps. All android tablets lack tablet apps. Google needs to find a way to get developers to produce these apps. Without it, I believe android tablets won't succeed. Especially with Windows 8 tablets coming.
It really is about marketing.
Then the apps.
Depending on price, I can envision Windows 8 tablets killing off any momentum Android tablets can muster up in the next two months.
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I don't know about that. The Surface series is nice, but let's face it--it's a different class of tablet.
After Nexus 7 it collapsed even further....according to amazon. The companies that actually track usage and sales put amazon far behind even Samsung. There were stories all over the web about amazons sales collapsing post iPad 3 and never recovering.