I know that I left off my last post with a question. I don’t like to do that often but I really did not know what was going to do with the iPad or the Kindle Fire. I’m happy to say that I’ve made my decision and it may surprise a lot of you.
I decided to sell my iPad and use and keep my Kindle Fire. After doing a lot of thinking on the subject I figured that I can do everything that I need to with my kindle fire and it was smaller and lighter. since I was mainly using the iPad as a consumption device it just made sense to switch to something that was later and did the same things. It’s not that I dislike the iPad and anyway the strip it’s just that this is what worked for me of course your mileage may vary like I said in the previous post.
There’ve been some criticisms of the Kindle Fire which I find quite interesting. The first one is the fact that it did not add any of the Google apps although it is in the android device. This complaint was mainly from a lot of the more techie blogs such as Gizmodo and Engadget and The Verge but I have to disagree with their assessment. The Kindle Fire is in Amazon device that just happens to run the Android operating system. It’s not a device that is Google specific; if anything it is Amazon specific. This is something that is really stressed with Amazon because if you look at any of their advertising or even their marketing on the web or elsewhere there is no mention of android anywhere. Not only that but Amazon has its own Android store and Google does not recognize the Kindle as an Android device and you can’t use apps from their Android market place. This is even the case if you go into the candle fire settings and set up that you can install apps from anywhere the android marketplace will not recognize your device.
The Kindle Fire perfect? Of course not. It does suffer from some stuttering and lack a of smoothness in the interface. I think the most annoying thing for me is the fact that the carousel you really need to be exact when you need to get that otherwise you constantly go back and forth between the app before and the app after it. Even with those problems I still see it as a Android issue and a Kindle Fire issue.
Finally, I wanted to address the question of whether or not the kindle fire is a direct competitor to the iPad. In a limited way, it is a competitor. However I think that Amazon is more interested in pushing their products although from the website then pushing the Kindle Fire into more people’s hands. So, even though it can do almost everything that the iPad can do I still don’t think that it is a direct competitor to the iPad. Then again, I have never subscribed to this theory that there could only be one tablet. I don’t see there being a problem with some people having iPads and other people having Kindle fire or another type of tablet.
