“Amazon provided some rare numerical data about its Kindle and Kindle Fire sales on Thursday that still left open questions about its real performance. It had been selling over a million of the combined lineup a week for the past three weeks. The pack had been led by the Kindle Fire,” Electronista reports. “The E Ink readers were ‘close behind,’ VP Dave Limp said.”
“As is often the case with Amazon, however, the company declined to give any definitive numbers, making it difficult to gauge the real demand for the Kindle Fire or any other individual model,” Electronista reports. “Stiff early criticism has raised the possibility of a higher-than-usual return rate.”
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A fool and his money…
Amazon won’t reveal the sorry details of their portable cash register. Eventually most new users will feel used by the less than stellar performance of the Fire and choose a different platform for buying on line.
Haha, that’s what I’ve been looking for. That’s exactly what this POS is. Portable one click register for amazon.com!
Let ’em sell! The cheapo Fire is precisely zero threat to the iPad, and stands a good chance of torpedoing any attempt by Android to compete with iOS in the tablet market, by becoming the most popular Android tablet by a mile.
——RM
LOL!! The most popular Android tablet — Kindle Fire — is garbage. Sounds about right. Now if only everyone can relate the Fire with Android in a real way to the masses, this may leave a sour taste in potential Android customers’ mouths worse than any other tablet to date.
The real question is, will there be more Kindle Fire tablets returned than kept? Quality sucks. Security sucks. Blocking one click orders is a disaster. Will the receiver of the gift realize that they could have a iPod touch for the same dollars? If the smaller than iPad screen is not an issue, might as well get the better device with greater capabilities and thousands of FREE apps, iChat, video camera, GPS, games, …
Will the receiver if an Kindle Fire really want an inferior product? I know, just say thank you and be polite. Sometimes, people just are unaware that there are better choices or it is December 24th and they were out of ideas.
Chances are the receivers of the Fire won’t want to sign up for One-click.
A friend of mine bought a Kindle Fire and despite many tries, we could not get it to connect to an older Airport Extreme wifi. It could see the Airport, but sat in an endless loop where it displayed a “connecting…” message. He ended up taking it on a plane trip without any new books hoping he’d find a compatible wifi on the way.
Amazon did not provide any numerical data on Kindle Fire sales; only on overall Kindle sales.
Considering the fact that Kindle Fire is #1 Amazon’s seller and that sales of all Kindle devices top one million units, we can estimate that from two to three-four million Kindle Fire devices could be sold this quarter.
You guys in the US can keep the Fire, but if there’s any Kindle Touch units going unsold could you hurry up and send them over to the UK? We’re stuck with last year’s 3G model 🙁