3 ms·
I'm not interested in any of these products but here's my impression: - Kindle Fire initially fulfilled an unmet market - Android(y) tablets for less than $200
by nkozyra 12y ago
I'm not interested in any of these products but here's my impression:
- Kindle Fire initially fulfilled an unmet market - Android(y) tablets for less than $200 that weren't total garbage. When the Kindle Fire launched, there were none. Tablets cost $300+ unless you were satisfied with some terrible off-brand tablet.
- The Fire phone. Total flop. Total miss. They offered nothing to the average Android phone user that wasn't already available, often for cheaper. Amazon has been giving the milk away for free and are now reigning in their services (which is why there's no Amazon Prime for Chromecast, for example).
- The TV. I think it's sleek looking and competitively priced (with everything but the Chromecast, cough, cough). You're basically throwing a dart at Apple TV, Roku, Google Player and the Amazon TV product, though.
I welcome anyone to the hardware market, primarily because the competition will drive this and frankly we have some dismal options outside of phones. Anything that can drive innovation (and prices downward) sounds good to me. Flops will happen along the way. Companies will try things and fail magnificently and that's ultimately good for (almost) everyone.
- ido 12y agoFor a while the kindle fire was the android tablet - as a game developer you'd often sell more tablet games on amazon's app store than on google's.