“Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is being portrayed as the first real competition Apple’s iPad has had, but initial evidence from potential tablet buyers suggests it’s Apple’s rivals who really need to worry,” Tony Smith reports for Register Hardware.
“US market research company ChangeWave polled just over 3000 North American consumers this month and found that a staggering 19 percent said they’re thinking about catching a Fire,” Smith reports. “That’s not only folk who said they’d already ordered one (two percent) but also those who said they were very (five percent) and somewhat (12 percent) likely to do so.”
Smith reports, “Some 14 per cent of respondents said they plan to buy a tablet of one make or another in the next three months… Of those folk, 65 percent said the will choose the iPad. A further 22 percent said they would pick the Fire.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wonder how many of those 22 percent realize they’ll want to return the Fire and get an iPad after frustratingly trying and failing to tap items, realizing the Fire suffers from severe AppLack™ or after watching scrolling stutter and other UI elements bog down repeatedly?
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