Instapaper creator reviews Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire: Bad game player, bad app platform, bad web browser, bad video player and bad Kindle

12 years ago

“I expected the Kindle Fire to be good for books, great for magazines and newspapers, great for video, and good for apps and games,” Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, blogs.In practice, it’s none of these.”

“I expected the Kindle Fire to be a compelling iPad alternative, but I can’t call it delightful, fun, or pleasant to use. Quite the opposite, actually: using the Fire is frustrating and unpleasant, and it feels like work,” Arment reports. “It’s not an iPad competitor or alternative. It’s not the same kind of device at all. And, whatever it is, it’s a bad version of it.”

Arment reports, “Almost the entire interface is sluggish, jerky, and unresponsive. Many touch targets throughout the interface are too small, and I miss a lot. It’s often hard to distinguish a miss from interface lag… It’s a bad game player, a bad app platform, a bad web browser, a bad video player, and, most disappointingly, a bad Kindle. If I didn’t need the Fire for Instapaper testing, I’d return it.”

Much more detail in the full review here.

MacDailyNews Take: The bottom line: Amazon’s Kindle Fire sucks. Hard.

Any positive review you read of Amazon’s Kindle Fire was either:
a) bought and paid for; or
b) conducted by an idiot who’s never spent even 30 seconds with an iPod touch, much less an iPad.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]