“I’ve been putting [Amazon’s Kindle Fire] through its paces all day long,” Jeff Benjamin reports for iDownloadBlog. “It’s a decent first attempt by Amazon, and it has tons of potential, but it still suffers from the fact that it’s a first generation device.”
“How does the iPad 2 stack up to Amazon’s debut entry into the tablet race?” Benjamin wonders.
Benjamin reports, “In this video I compared three different areas: bootup times, web browsing, and Netflix streaming. Kindle Fire is really fast when it comes to Netflix streaming, though that could be due in part to Netflix’s new Android interface.”
MacDailyNews Note: Comparing the new Netflix app on the Kindle to the old Netfilx app on the iPad is a meaningless comparison.
“Overall, though, there’s absolutely no comparison between the two,” Benjamin reports. “The iPad 2 is just insanely more polished in all facets when compared to Amazon’s tablet. It really makes you appreciate all of the work that Apple goes through to get their hardware and software performing just right.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Tiny-screened, sluggish, clunky, unresponsive, re-taptastic, frustrating, jittery piece of crap topped with a severe case of AppLack™. We’d call Amazon’s Kindle Fire a “poor man’s iPad,” but we don’t want to insult iPad by mentioning it in the same sentence.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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