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What is the difference between the Playbook and the Kindle Fire, except $300 and a camera and 8 GB of flash?
by smackfu 15y ago
What is the difference between the Playbook and the Kindle Fire, except $300 and a camera and 8 GB of flash?
- raganwald 15y agoFor most consumers, the Fire is more functional: It is a portal to content they want and it runs apps available everywhere.
- cpeterso 15y agoNot much because both Amazon and RIM outsourced their tablet hardware design to ODM Quanta: http://gdgt.com/discuss/the-amazon-tablet-will-look-like-a-playbook-because-it-basically-is-g8d/ http://gdgt.com/discuss/the-amazon-tablet-will-look-like-a-p...
- AlexandrB 15y agoI'm not sure how important the hardware is. It has to meet a minimum level of functionality/quality, but that's it. The software is what's going to sell the tablet. The Playbook's and Fire's software is vastly different.
- staktrace 15y agoOne is shipping. The other isn't.
- metageek 15y ago$100, actually--BestBuy is now selling the 16GB Playbook for $299.
- kupo 15y agoThe Playbook is more business orientated (secure QNX OS) but is also on sale to consumers. The kindle is purely a consumer product.
- cryptoz 15y ago> The Playbook is more business orientated People say this, but I disagree. They shipped with working Flash and no email. If you look at their actions instead of what reporters and RIM's marketing team say, I think it's very difficult to call the Playbook a "business orientated" device. All of their commercials even boasted about the Flash capabilities and the HD-movies-that-keep-playing-when-you-multitask-away. Business tablet? Yeah right.
- mcbarry 15y agoNot to mention it shipped with Need For Speed preinstalled
- jodrellblank 15y agoIt does make me wonder what an actually business oriented tablet would prioritise.
- falling 15y agoAmazon.