Conan O’Brien and “Team Coco” tqke a look at Amazon’s Kindle Fire’s lees-than-stellar critical reception in a new video.
Note the “one-push solution” to the Kindle Fire problem at the end of the video.
Some customers are whining about the Kindle Fire, but Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has a plan to make everyone happy:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]
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How comedians get away with what they do is beyond me! They r above reproach and enjoy perpetuating myth and disrespect all for simple laughs, ratings and money. I know few here care about bad publicity for Amazon, but remember Apple is also fair game. If I was Amazon, I’d sue! But that would dignify the awful comedien’s act. I’m all Apple, but competition is good. Comedien’s, well, need to be put in their place! All a bunch of business-hating liberals with serious cultural agendas!
Dude, it’s America. We lampoon, spoof, parody, whatever you want to call it and it’s protected speech. It’s what we do. We’ll take the good with the bad. We’ll take the jabs at Apple if we get sweet stuff like this.
Awww poor babies, monolithic corporations have it sooo tough. Ol’ iMaki, you probably would have called for the beheading of the court jester back in midieval times, because he was the only guy with permission to tell the slightest bit of truth.
But nice comment iMaki. You are at your caricaturistic best today…..
iMaki, I think someone should remove your exclamation point key from your keyboard!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes, here your answer is, USC Amd. 1 ¶1: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech” and USC Amd. 14 ¶1: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”
Only problem with your statement is that Amazon is NOT the government and thus they can make no laws. However, they are a public company in the public domain and thus are open to ridicule but not libel, to which I will leave that for the lawyers to decide.
Of course they could do the obvious and get over their self and have a good laugh.
Dummy, Amazon may be a private company, but they are still subject to the laws passed by the Congress and the states. Parody and satire have been long protected parts of free speech since the founding of the Republic.
If Amazon took Conan to court and asked the government to punish him under existing law for making fun of them, that would mean the government had to have created a law saying that comedians can’t make fun of big corporations. That’s what suing someone is – asking the government to get involved in a dispute under some theory of a violation of a law made by the government. For Amazon to have a case here, Congress (or a state) would have to have made a law that “abridg[es] … freedom of speech.” Get it?
iMaki, why do you hate America?
Oh WAAAH! Somebody might get their feelings hurt. Hard for me to believe you call comedians liberals. Your whole statement mirrors the liberal “Don’t hurt anyone’s feelings” mentality.
“Comdien’s (your spellng), well, need to be put in their place!”. That IS their place.
Please get over yourself and grow a spine.
So, iMaki casts one emphatic vote against free speech.
Got it.
Anyone else?
go fcuk ur self imaki. U r a pompous douche. Get over ur hatred of libs. We are all over the place, believe it or not. If i was king I would throw ur ass to the lions.
Satire about the hand writing translations killed the Newton.
Apple has been there, done that. The trick to avoiding the ridicule of late night bozos is to stop shipping crap.
Amazon will learn it’s lesson. So will other tablet makers.
TV shows rip apple all of the time
Remember the humancentipad episode of South park or the Mapple stores on the simpsons?
Get a grip my oversensitive friend
It’s beyond you? Really? It’s beyond you?
Beyond you that NO ONE would bother fact checking a comedy sketch? Okay.
When late night tv starts in on you , the rest of America follows…. Remember Millie Vanillie… Wow…. Conan has really trashed this product… Things do not bode well for the Fire … The returns after Christmas will resemble a tsunami… I predict iPad sales after the holidays to equal pre holiday sales as all of those ill informed parents return those Fires they bought their kids and get what they really wanted … IPads…. There is a saying “out of the mouths of babes”… And what’s coming out of those mouths is “I want an iPad”.
Bloodbath…Act IV, Scene 2. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos suddenly realizes the true meaning of “pants on Fire”.
iMaki, you sound like a neo-McCarthyite – Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Ok, where did the idea come from that the Kindle Fire was ever meant to be “Amazon’s answer to the iPad?” I think that’s just the general media and consumer approach. My understanding is that Amazon has not marketed it as such. Clearly, at least in my view, it is meant to support their own retail infrastructure.
I have owned a Kindle in the past, but gave it to a relative once I purchased my first iPad. With the Kindle app for iPad, I don’t see a need for the a Kindle. But there are people who are contented with the Kindle’s limitations. I say let them have it if that’s what they want.
I’m all Apple. iPhone, iPad, MB Air, MB Pro, iMac. But I don’t mind having competitors’ products around me. Just makes my chosen world shine a bit more.
David F.:
“Ok, where did the idea come from that the Kindle Fire was ever meant to be “Amazon’s answer to the iPad?” I think that’s just the general media and consumer approach. My understanding is that Amazon has not marketed it as such.”
From Amazon’s website:
“Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle – same as an iPad”
David F.:
“I’m all Apple. iPhone, iPad, MB Air, MB Pro, iMac. But I don’t mind having competitors’ products around me. Just makes my chosen world shine a bit more.”
How exactly does a turd make your world shine, David?
btw.. I notice in Amazon’s “same as an iPad” reference they never mention that their “vibrant color touchscreen” is only 7″ compared to Apple’s 10″.
You make a point correctu. I never noticed that ‘same as an iPad’ line. Frack you Amazon for that blundered comparison!
You also gotta love the Amazon BS about Silk:
“taking full advantage of Amazon Web Services’ incredible computational horsepower to accelerate web browsing – something you won’t find in iPad’s Safari browser.”
Silk has turned out to be an absolute JOKE, no accelerated anything, slower than an iPad, with results actually DECLINING in speed as more users access the Silk servers. Meta-FAIL Amazon.
David,
Amazon has a page with a chart comparing the Fire with the iPad 2, so it’s not just the media hype. Amazon IS marketing it that way, so they deserve whatever criticism they get.
Here that link V mentions.. thanks never seen this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000719771
Log onto Amazon.com. Put iPad into search box. First thing that pops us is not iPad but a comparison chart showing the advantages of the Fire over the iPad 2. My interpretation is Amazon is very much comparing the Fire to the iPad. Do it, log on to Amazon.com and check it out.
I watched this earlier today and loved the end. “Many happy returns” with the one button fix to the problem that says “Buy iPad 2”.
@iMaki
Don’t hate on comedians for shining the flashlight of truth on things around the world. And yes, Apple is fair game. Apparently you missed the shellacking Conan gave to Apple over the Final Cut debacle. Apple has made a number of corrections to Final Cut since then and I’m sure Conan’s parody had something to do with that.
the blackberry playbook is the best $200 tablet on the market right now.
but the best tablet still remains the iPad2 and followed by the iPad v1.0
Amazon is no threat to Apple and I hope they succeed with their Kindle products, but they deserve no better than they’re getting for releasing an obviously flawed “iPad killer”. Hey, if you boast that you can knock out the champ, you’d better have some serious chops, no? Otherwise, it’s nose to the canvas for you.
It has been widely reported that Amazon is selling Kindle Fires below cost (and we’re talking just manufacturing cost, which does NOT include R&D, marketing, channel distribution, etc). In other words, the price Amazon is paying its Chinese manufacturer per each Kindle Fire is higher than what a consumer pays for it in the US. The obvious goal of this is to make it so overwhelmingly attractive to the consumer that (s)he would overlook all the shortcomings compared to the competing products. If Amazon were to add profit margins that Apple gets on their own hardware, the Fire would likely retail for at least $330. And obviously, nobody would ever bother buying.
There is only ONE reason anyone is actually buying Fires: it is the cheapest full-colour, capacitive touch Android tablet out there. And even at that price (and with such incredibly low expectations), it is still failing. I’m surprised why others are surprised by that.
Lordy lordy I am sick of this shite:
The Amazon Kindle Fire is NOT, nor was ever intended to be, ‘Amazon’s answer to the iPad.’
Fracked up dumbass TechTard journalists invented that lie. How about we have satirical skits about THEM?! This mountain of ‘Fire vs iPad’ BS is NOT Amazon’s fault.
The Amazon Kindle Fire = a color eReader. Expect more out of it at your peril. AND expect the ire of gifting victims at Christmas if they were expecting an actual iPad. They ain’t the same thing by nature.
There IS, however, one hilarious line in the Team Coco skit:
“Many happy returns to Amazon, free of charge.”
December 26th = Return your rejected gift Amazon Kindle Fire to Amazon day. But the deluge has already begun…