“After setting the tablet scene alight in Q4 last year with 4.8 million tablet sales and taking the number two position in the market with a 16.8 percent market share, Amazon’s Kindle Fire sales fizzled in Q1,” MacNN reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Amazon deos not disclose Kindle sales figures. Estimates range widely. For example, iSuppli estimates Amazon shipped 3.9 million Kindle Fire units in Q411.
“For the months of January, February and March this year, Amazon saw its Kindle Fire slide to just a 4 percent market share on with less than 750,000 sales,” MacNN reports. “By contrast, Apple drove home its advantage as the market leader by growing its Q4 market share of 54.7 percent to a dominant 68 percent on the back of 11.8 million iPad sales.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This begs the question that Bozos will never answer: Just how many of those unresponsive, laggy, tiny screen Christmas lumps of coal were returned by people who wanted a real iPad?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “Sarah,” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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TOO SCARED to release real sales numbers.
“You get what you pay for” “Cheap is expensive” etc. you get the idea. Life really is too short and tomorrow is not promised, so pamper yourself with a new iPad and enjoy!
Clearly this is false: If you visit http://www.amazon.com you will see immediately that the Fire is the number one selling item on Amazon.com.
Since Amazon makes that list, you cannot trust that ranking. They have gamed the ranked list ever since they started selling Kindles.
Yes, I agree. Tablets are not sold elsewhere, so those estimations just can not be right.
I believe Mr. Sarcasm was being sarcastic.
I believe I was being sarcastic, too. ;))
So, if their claim to fame is that you can read them in the bright sun light, they should be easy to spot. When you see people reading out side, what are they using?
These iKiller tablets are just cheep gifts for some and other times, all they could afford. Cheep gifts end up returned or in a draw and people without money can’t buy books and apps for the devices. So they are left home in a draw.
So, look around. What devices do you see in the real world?
The Kindle FIre is about the same as the iPad in bright sunlight. It is the Kindle Touch that works really great as an e-reader outside in the bright sun. And I do see Kindle touches in action during the day.
Kindle Touches and Kindle 4s are excellent devices. Amazon’s mistake is trying to turn their winning Kindle formula into something it isn’t. A Kindle is meant to replace a book, not a computer. Therefore the question they should be asking themselves about the Fire is “why?”.
The Fire was meant to push other Amazon media, such as Movies and TV shows.
Their Lovefilm media service is already built into everything in the home from PS3s to TVs and Blu-Ray players. Why not just build it into other people’s handheld devices instead of sullying the Kindle brand?
Actually the Kindle Fire’s screen is no where near as good as the iPad, not even close.
Take a fire and an iPad out in the sun. You will not be able to tell the difference in the image quality and view-ability between them. You get different results indoors, of course.
I’ve seen the newer retina display iPad at full brightness in the sun, it looks better then the Fire. Maybe the older generation iPads looked about the same but the newest one looks better.
Most people leave them at home in a drawer, but if you left them in a draw, did you draw a drawer to put them on?
Maybe they know someone at Amazon who is favoring them on that list. Must be good friends
That may very well be true, but they saw their position as top ereader threatened by iPads which can do other things besides display books.
People who have never used an ipad are thrilled with them. I’ve seen a few in the wild.
As the owner of a real Kindle (eInk, 3G, WiFi, Keyboard) and an iPad (3rd generation- 3rd iPad), let me be the first to say that the Kindle Fire is a steaming pile of shit, unworthy of the Kindle name. It has all the liabilities of the iPad and loses almost all the advantages of the real Kindle as a reading device and gains little. It uses Fandroid theftware and is a poor substitute for a real iPad – like all Fandroid devices.
If I wanted a eye straining glare hobbled LED illuminated LCD display that washed out in the sun I could use the Kindle app on my iPad. Unlike a real Kindle with eInk, the Fire is damn near useless outdoors in bright sunlight.
The real Kindle is a dedicated reading device that can run weeks on a full charge, can be used in the sunshine and does not have the fragile glass face of the iPad. For a camping vacation a charge up Kindle works great- unlike the iPad. Chasing the iPad, Amazon is getting the worst of the iPad and losing the best of the Kindle.
Well put. The Kindle is a great device for reading.
The iPad is a great tablet computer, which you can also read using your Kindle app (or other apps, Nook, iBooks, etc.)
I have both – the Kindle is cheap, around $100 will get you one.
Should’ve been expected. Kindles are toys that sell well over the Holidays and then drop off sharply afterwards. The iPad is a computer, so sales should remain stable and healthy.
Toys?
I can take a fully charged Kindle and go on an extended camping trip and an read all manner of content for 2 weeks. On one charge.
If it gets dropped the screen will in all likelihood not be damaged. A ziplock bag will keep it dry on a camping trip.
I like my iPad- its a nice device when a real computer is impractical. Make no mistake, an iPad is NOT a replacement for my Mac Pro by a long shot on it’s best day.
I also like my Kindle and for reading it cannot be beat.
When Mef and Red release Blackout 3, they need to update Cereal Killer to iPad Killer and have a line about Kindle FIre’s 4% market share.
More eating crow for you stupid ANALyst. Always giving thumbs up to Amazon whenever they disclose nothing factual about their sales numbers on Kindle!
Darn Amazon! The hype lost steam and
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+1 Haha, good one!