From: LA Times ~ Amazon Targets Apple’s iPad In Kindle Ad
Right, she got three different gadgets to do what one iPad 2 does with no problems because the Kindle tablet runs like molasses and their eBook reader is a cheap piece of plastic that she threw in with the purchase as a impulse buy and well not a whole lot of thought went into that purchase and…
I’ll let the article explain it to you in great big color coded easy to understand concepts.
those low-cost Kindles actually cost more to manufacture than they do to buy. Both the $79 Kindle e-reader and the Kindle Fire tablet are loss leaders. It costs Amazon $84.25 to make the $79 Kindle, and the $199 Kindle Fire costs Amazon $201.70.
So are you getting the picture clearly on how these Kindle whatevers are not built to last and no matter how well they sell it is not really making the company any money unless you buy content and it’s all a big old school come on? This is why the typical Jeff Bezos fact-less proclamation of a successful iPad killer for the cheapest price rings false. Is it too hard to see the problem here of cheap razor blade handles and getting stuck buying expensive proprietary blades?
Apple at least lets you run whatever eBook reading app you want on an iPad 2 because it is a real platform not a razor blade handle and they let you buy your content from whomever and wherever you find it cheapest and Amazon will never ever allow that to happen on their shit without you paying them somehow. For as long as you own their cheap ass plastic sucker magnet razor blade handles you will buy their crap through their store.
As someone on Gizmodo said this is like comparing and then complaining that a Lexus is not priced like a KIA. I would go much further and say this is like comparing a mini SUV to a pickup truck.
She could have had three mini SUVs for the price of that pickup truck but then maybe someday soon she wants to haul some dirt. Not many mini SUVs haul dirt because pickup trucks are pickup trucks and mini SUVs are not built to be pickup trucks but lets ignore all that and make the whole concept of our commercial about how cheap our mini SUVs are next to that pickup truck. Tomorrow we will do one comparing the size. Oh and forget all about telling people how any passengers using our mini SUVs have to be bought from us.
And this is why I think some people do not need to be buying tablets in the first place because they have no clue what purpose they are buying them for. These are the same idiots that kept Gateway Computers making a profit for decades.
Well it’s a desktop! You said you wanted a computer. What’s wrong with it? Oh, you are just hung up on those brand names and we can’t afford a Dell. The guy at Radio Shack said this Gateway cow computer would run Windows just fine and it cost 500 dollars less so this is what we will use.
The fact is trying to sell the whole “just as good as” is short hand for being a rip off of other companies better ideas and products. It means Amazon simply repackaged some off the shelf junk made by some no name Chinese factory probably worse than Foxconn will ever be and has no clue how to actually build a decent tablet but they sure know how to lock your ass into their store with a good bait and switch.
Tags: Apple
Anonymouse wrote,
I gotta agree with this, much as I loved my Kindle when I first got it. After I started reading on my iPhone I have rarely used my Kindle.
Link | February 10th, 2012 at 8:21 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Plus you can make phone calls so you don’t feel like you are hauling around a one trick pony. That’s also the reason I recommend big screen Android phones like The Samsung Galaxy Nexus and those various huge HTC phones. They do more than one thing and Google supports them directly and they are not dedicated on locking you into anything more than the cell phone contract.
Link | February 10th, 2012 at 8:22 am
v wrote,
Why on earth would you want three kindles?
Link | February 10th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Annette wrote,
You don’t have to buy ebooks from amazon for the Kindle if you can get a mobi that is DRM free. I buy most of mine from allromance, not amazon.
Link | February 13th, 2012 at 7:59 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Unfortunately Annette that is not how most people buy things.
They base it off of how convenient it is to get that file onto a Kindle which Amazon makes a tad bit difficult versus the easiest way which is to simply buy it from Amazon directly.
If I drag and drop a non-DRM pdf file or an epub into iTunes Apple will treat it the same as one of their eBooks.
Sure you can work around Amazon and their restrictions on the Kindle but you have to focus on how to work around them which most consumers will never do. Not when they are buying Kindles simply because they are so cheap.
Link | February 13th, 2012 at 8:07 am