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Amazon’s ‘iPad killer’ may not hit shelves until 2012

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 · 3:30 pm · 27 Comments

“DigiTimes, a Chinese blog focusing on the supply side of the tech industry, reports that mass production of the 10.1-inch tablet won’t begin until the first quarter of 2012,” Anthony James reports for TechFlash.

“The supplier is Foxconn Electronics, which also manufactures components for Apple’s iPad,” James reports. “Another supplier will supply a 7-inch tablet for Amazon. Those units are expected to begin shipping in October. Both models are widely believed to run on Android.”

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Tags: Amazon, iPad killer, iPad wannabes, tablet

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27 Comments

troy

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 3:36 pm · Reply

I really hate $tupid ANALyst..
If apple has years of success with every single products, they don’t see it like something to trust on.
But if any other company announce that MAYBE they will came out with a crappy product, then the so called ANALysts project billions on sells and apple destruction.
Good thing apple don’t need those bozos.
- Engineer
  
  Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 4:09 am · Reply
  
  This isn’t really analysts, its Amazon themselves. All these leaks and rumors about Amazon’s next kindle are just Amazon playing the press to get press for themselves.
  
  In fact, Amazon, a third rate online retailer, owes its entire overvalued stock market capitalization to this kind of press manipulation and dishonesty… which they’ve been doing since the beginning.
  
  notice that, by not releasing numbers for the kindle, they avoid people pointing out how much of an abject failure it is.
  - quiviran
    
    Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 10:17 am · Reply
    
    Funny, I know far more people with Kindles than iPads. All of them love the devices and use them daily. My wife has one and I have to respect the focus and implementation of the device and the Kindle ecosystem. It works great for what it does, weights almost nothing and invisibly does the network and sync part of its job.
    
    That said, the Kindle app for my iPad works just as great as their native device and we are able to share books between the two. I would never dream of living in a Kindle only world. The iPad was made to be capable of so much more and it is. But denigrating Kindle is mindless.
Lamazon

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 3:54 pm · Reply

So Amazon’s so-called “iPad killer”, its very first entrant into the tablet market, is going to go toe-to-toe with the iPad 3? Get your popcorn boys, this bloodbath is going to be very, very entertaining.
Bizlaw

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:09 pm · Reply

There’s NO WAY Amazon can launch a 10.1 inch tablet and price it at $299 or less without bleeding money from every orifice it has.

Either that, or the components will be so cheap and pathetic in quality that you wouldn’t be able to read the black and white screen anyway.
macman1984

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:15 pm · Reply

Actually, if you read between the lines, Amazon’s 7″ (that SEVEN inch) tablet will probably be $300. No one knows what the 10.1″ will sell for…
Swing Geezer

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:19 pm · Reply

They’d better be leading APPL by a couple of miles before they pull that trigger.
Ballmer's left nut

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:20 pm · Reply

The only place this will sell is in the Amazonian jungle to some lost tribesmen.
- HughB
  
  Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:51 pm · Reply
  
  Breeze. Good going. Maybe we can drive that prick BLN out of here.
- Anonymous Coward
  
  Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:52 pm · Reply
  
  “Amazonian jungle to some lost tribesmen.”
  
  These can be found in every American City.
  
  Amazon will make a fortune from these gullible consumers of who can’t afford even a belt much less an iPad.
Synth

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:21 pm · Reply

Just in time for iPad 3! And a markdown on iPad 2s.

Components, price and quality of the Amazon device will be irrelevant. Unless they decide to sell it at a huge loss like HP.
davewrite

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:24 pm · Reply

Zdnet put the (non existent) Amazon tablet at No.2 in their top 10 tablets of 2011 list!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/leaderboard-the-10-hottest-tablets-of-2011-updated/56840?tag=content;feature-roto

(you can really see how people look at Apple rivals and give them a free pass. Gruber calls it grading on a curve… )
- Dave
  
  Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:39 pm · Reply
  
  Ah yes, ZDNet. If there is a website (along with CNet) that is more anti-Apple, I don’t know of it. In ZDNet’s perfect world, all computers would be beige, work from 5 1/4″ floppy disk drives and still run on DOS. All table computers (which I am sure they would prefer to use the Microsoft-approved term “slate”) should be banished.
  
  ZDNet is hardly the model of journalistic neutrality. My other comments about that site would be unprintable.
Botvinnik

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:27 pm · Reply

It’s International FUD Day…however consumers vote with their pocketbook.
Synth

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:33 pm · Reply

And I’m still amazed that anyone thinks that Amazon can out-source a quality tablet better than Samsung, Sony, HP, RIM, Toshiba, LG, etc. not to mention Apple, all while they replace Google services and app store with the Amazon stuff. Android is going to go from a Circus sideshow to a 3-ring circus, with Amazon trying to sell tickets on one side of the tent and Google trying to sell tickets on the other. And just wait till Amazon is running its trapeze act while the Google lions and clowns are running lose on the floor.
sjmdesigns

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:36 pm · Reply

I wish these companies would just make the product already. My goodness, just do it. STOP TALIN’ ‘BOUT IT, AND JUST EFFING TO DO IT ALREADY.
- DMac
  
  Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 5:01 pm · Reply
  
  1
Ton

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:40 pm · Reply

Yaik. (yet another iPad killer…)
Ken

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 4:43 pm · Reply

Any company that manufactures a “product killer” is doomed to failure. Why should I throw my money at a business to help them win a victory in corporate politics? They are motivated to build and sell it, but I’m not motivated to buy it.
- sjmdesigns
  
  Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 5:01 pm · Reply
  
  Absolutely!
Jubei

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 5:46 pm · Reply

#2 for a nonexisting product! Hahahaha. Those guys at ZDNET are soooo stupid! lol
dddd

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 5:53 pm · Reply

AMZN P/E is 94.90 today… what if they have to charge sales tax? What happens when the subsidized tablet losses hit the bottom line and are reflected in gross margins at the quarterly conference call? Who the hell buys a stock with a P/E of over 100 unless you are buying stock in liquid cocaine, loan sharking or successful nuclear fusion.

When will the book publishers get together and create an alternate non-profit direct distribution cooperative to cut out the Middle-Amazon?
Ansel

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 6:46 pm · Reply

Apple has iPad 3 already and have had 85% of iPad 3 on the drawing board for at least 3 years now ….

When you build a new product you don’t show your best first round, as you want to sell more, in round 2, 3 and 4 to the same people that purchased in round 1 and new customers as well so you hold back some ideas and get new ones from first generations buyers ……

Apple will release iPad 3 or iPad Pro or whatever they call it, when the market conditions are right, give or take a month …..

Knowing Apple and the savvy Steve Jobs, they will release ight about same time as Amazon and once again, steal the thunder and getting alll kinds of free media attention ……. Apple is a master at getting free press, second to nobody baby, second to nobody, period.
RDF

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 7:23 pm · Reply

Who calls the device an iPad killer? Amazon, or some moron who writes about something they have not seen?
AlfieJr

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 7:36 pm · Reply

great way to start, Amazon – to launch your new thing, another 7″ tweener tab for the Holidays. just like the fantastically (un)successful Samsung 7″ Galaxy 3G tab last year. whose wifi version finally went on sale in April for $350 – and flopped.

oh yeah, that’s gonna work great – if you give it away.

but hey, you’ve just given all the Great iPad Killer Hope fans four more months of excuses/fantasies. just wait for that 10 incher! that’s nice.
AlfieJr

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 7:42 pm · Reply

but i forgot, next month we do get to see a pair of new 10″ Honeycomb tablets. The HTC Jetstream with 4G LTE for $699 (DOA)! and the Sony Tablet S with an IR universal remote built in and PlayStation Xperia Play game ready for $499 (at least they’re trying)! how’s the Amazon tab gonna look next to them?
John

Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 12:34 am · Reply

Hilarious. Amazon is going to outsource a tablet and compete against a company that is fanatical about quality. Makes sense to me.