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― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
$199 - suck it, Apple
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
amazon seems like the only company serious abt competing w/apple tabletwise
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
in that theyre doing their own thing not just putting out shitty ipad knockoffs no one will ever buy
hardware wise a lotta this was bought up from RIM iirc tho, which is why a lotta ppl were like "meh" before specifics came out
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
well its all abt the specifics isnt it
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really care about tablets so much but this seems really small? i guess that would be nice for commuters but if i'm mainly going to use it at home the ipad still seems way nicer.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
ipad is def nicer/more versatile, also costs 2.5x
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
can def see fire 3G down the way and maybe some kinda fire deluxe that's closer to the ipad in size & feature set on the horizon tho
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
feel like prob the most interesting thing abt this is on the app sales end, amazon is a company who knows how to sell things on the internet unlike google rim et al their app store w/prob be the first real competitor to apple
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's a Blackberry Playbook underneath, but what really sells it is the Amazon cloud backend. If they come out with a larger iPad sized model, it'll be the first serious competitor to Apple's tablet.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
can't wait to get groceries through my fire
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
silky http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-tablet-silk-web-browser
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:06 AM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
pre cooked
no one else cares about this but it doesn't look like the e-ink on the e-readers is updated from the kindle 3 (just based on the fact that they aren't using this as a selling point) - screen size is the same but body is smaller. also $79 is for the version with the "special offers" (ad screensavers), it's $109 without the special offers.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
all the quoted e-reader prices are for the special offers versions
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
triiicky
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
ah the new e-readers all say "kindle" on the back in big letters, lame
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
not visible in any of the pics on the amazon page, only in the intro video, classy amazon
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
They also come with a battery pack shaped like a sandwich board with "BUY AMAZON PRODUCTS" on one side and "ENJOY THE GREAT NEW TASTE OT SOYLENT GREEN" on the other.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
i like how amazon makes base mercantilism work as a counterpoint to apples visionary user experience based approach
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
like theres more than one way to skin a tablet
amazon: we got stuff
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
A big cloud of stuff.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
just realized the new e-readers also don't have keyboards. hmm, guess the note-taking feature is being deemphasized.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
oh he didn't demo an onscreen keyb did he
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
i thought keyboards were a bit of a killer app, searching for the first mention of that guy who has suddenly reappeared in ch. 32, who the hell is he again? can't do that in my sony e-reader.
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's weird, even searching for books on the amazon store will be more of a pain with a virtual keyboard, especially on the non-touch versions.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I AM THE TABLET
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
^ any tablet wars news makes me hear loutallica now
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
you know, RIM's playbook was actually a pretty awesome piece of hardware, they failed because a) no native integration with their bread-and-butter BES, b) no apps, and c) price. amazon's apparently integrated the fire pretty well into their own cloud/content arena and the price is double-dip recession appropriate so hey welcome to the partay
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad to see tablet prices going down, but the Kindle Fire isn't tempting to me. It looks lousy as an ebook reader and android tablets still don't have many good games to buy.
― anorange (abanana), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
And you know they're going to do the Apple trick of introducing a new model with a camera and 3G at some point in the next 18 months.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
and the original model will cost $99 w/in the year
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
and as HP proved $99 is the price point at which consumers will gobble tablets like tictacs
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
Will this tablet allow me to buy things from Amazon?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
is this thing iOS
― (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━sʇʇnq━┻ (cozen), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
Like the look of the touch Kindle, hate the keyboard on current Kindle. Fire? pff. Aspect ratio is all wrong for a start.
― stet, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-omnivore-09282011.html
― markers, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of quotes from my buddy Jateen in that one! He now runs jelli...
― schwantz, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Aspect ratio is all wrong for a start.
Amazon's target market isn't calculating ratios
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
too lazy to read up on the new models - so I'm guessing the Fire has an iPad like display while the others still have e-ink (ie. what I'm really interested in)? I suppose it is not worth waiting for color e-ink in the short-term future?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 29 September 2011 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
so the fire is cloud-storage based but with no 3g support? that seems ... crippled
― thomp, Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah kinda ruins it for traveling
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
it has 8gb onboard; presumably the idea is you sync what you might want to watch/listen to for the next (x) days every time you touch base somewhere with wifi; i'm not sure how good of an idea that is
relatedly, the 'free cloud storage' is for amazon-bought content
― thomp, Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
and all these models will be US only? wtf
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
90 quid in the UK, getting more and more tempted
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
i need to spend some time with one tho before i'm convinced it can replace a book, but just the thought of being able to carry around multi volume classics in my pocket is mad tempting
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking £90 was a good price too, except the US price being $79 (roughly £50) makes me think 'fuck Amazon' tbh.
― 44.9 percent indie rock individualist (onimo), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link