“With many investors (including yours truly) ready to proclaim retail and technology giant Amazon as the No. 1 contender to Apple, this makes its upcoming earnings announcement on Tuesday all the more interesting,” Cameron Kaine writes for Seeking Alpha. “Just as in sports where rivalries tend to bring storylines of both teams inside the lines of play on the field – or ‘the story within the story,’ the same can be said for these two technology bellwethers.”
“For a company such as Amazon, which revolutionized the antiquated idea of big-box retail, survived the dot.com bubble and placed a capital ‘E’ in ecommerce, I continue to get the sense that it is not getting the respect that it deserves – and I would venture to say that Apple’s success has had a lot to do with this,” Kaine writes. “Last November the company launched an assault on Apple’s tablet reign with the unveiling of its Kindle Fire to rave reviews.”
MacDailyNews Take: Okay, we can get past someone writing “ecommerce” with a lower case “e” after saying that Amazon put the “capital ‘E'” in the word, but Kindle Fire was unveiled to “rave reviews?” Puleeze:
• Tablet display shootout: Apple iPad ‘excellent,’ Amazon Kindle Fire ‘major flaws’ – December 20, 2011
• ‘Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual’ author to return Kindle Fire, keep his ‘years ahead’ Apple iPad 2 – December 15, 2011
• Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire’s big security problem – December 14, 2011
• Lack of parental controls on Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire lets kids charge up a storm – December 12, 2011
• Disgruntled early adopters of Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire have slew of complaints – December 12, 2011
• Usability expert Jakob Nielsen tests Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire: ‘A disappointingly poor user experience’ – December 5, 2011
• Instapaper creator reviews Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire: Bad game player, bad app platform, bad web browser, bad video player and bad Kindle – November 18, 2011
• PCWorld reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Flawed, unimpressive, subpar; can’t hold a candle to iPad – November 16, 2011
• Mossberg reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Frustrating, clunky, much less capable and versatile than iPad – November 16, 2011
• Apple iPad 2 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire: Bootup, browsing, and Netflix streaming (with video) – November 16, 2011
• Wired reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Web browsing sucks, emotionally draining, makes reading a chore – November 14, 2011
• NY Times’ Pogue reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Sluggish, ornery, unpolished – November 14, 2011
• The Verge reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Uninspired, confusing, incredibly unoriginal – November 14, 2011
• Engadget reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Sluggish, clunky, too limiting and restricted – November 14, 2011Just to make sure there’s no confusion whatsoever, these are what rave reviews look like, Cam:
• PC Magazine reviews Apple iOS 5: The best phone and tablet OS, Editors’ Choice – October 15, 2011
• The Guardian reviews Apple iPad 2: Ahead of the pack – March 25, 2011
• The Telegraph reviews Apple iPad 2: Does everything better; now’s the perfect time to join the iPad club – March 25, 2011
• Computerworld reviews Apple’s iPad 2: ‘The Holy Grail of computing’ – March 16, 2011
• Ars Technica reviews Apple iPad 2: Big performance gains in a slimmer package
• Associated Press reviews Apple iPad 2: Apple pulls further ahead – March 10, 2011
• PC Mag reviews Apple iPad 2: The tablet to get; Editors’ Choice – March 10, 2011
• Associated Press reviews Apple iPad 2: Apple pulls further ahead – March 10, 2011
• Pogue reviews Apple iPad 2: Thinner, lighter, and faster transforms the experience – March 10, 2011
Baig reviews Apple iPad 2: Second to none – March 10, 2011
Kaine writes, “It was an instant success and was termed the ‘iPad killer’ – much to the dismay of Apple investors.”
Complete ridiculousness – Think Before You Click™ – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Elevating Amazon to the level of an equal with Apple is a joke. Apple could buy Amazon outright, with cash, and still have $15 billion left over. Apple’s market value is rapidly approaching 5 times that of Amazon’s. Five times. Amazon’s net income for calendar Q311 (they don’t report Q4 until tomorrow) was $63 million. Apple’s calendar Q311 net income was $6.62 billion. Apple made 105 times more than Amazon did last calendar Q3. Calendar Q4 will likely be a worse comparison for Amazon as Apple generated an astonishing net profit of $13.06 billion. Apple has reported that they have sold over 55 million iPads to date. Analysts estimate Kindle Fire units sold to date at 4-6 million. With Amazon never reporting Kindle Fire unit sales or – perhaps even more tellingly – the number of Kindle Fire returns, there’s no way anyone could call them Apple’s “No. 1 contender” with a straight face.
This is the typical troll article. if this “writer” were a good investor, he’ll be investing more and writing less. Writing this “article” just create visits so people can go and bash this clueless guy. Maybe he’s not that dumb but that only gives him short term visits since people might put his blog (or whatever) in websites-not-to-visit list.
And long on RIMM and MSFT might be a joke.
Just adding fuel to the fire: Apple sold about 10M iPod Touch devices last quarter, roughly 2x more than Amazon sold Kindle Fires.
I mention this, because I think the Kindle Fire is more like a big iPod Touch than it is a small iPad. Being bigger makes it a little better for movies, probably a lot better for reading, but also much less portable
IPad certainly killed all tablet market, include android!