Kindle Fire outsells 16 GB iPad at Best Buy (updated)

I was on a plane yesterday speaking to a person who was giving a Fire to here 2.5 yr old grandson for Xmas. Made sense! No pieces to put in mouth. No electric cord...safer than a TV or big computer. Small enouch for kids hands. Take anywhere video machine, game machine, learning machine...and at $200 can be replaced when tyke drops it in bubble bath (waterproof?)

The Kindle seem to make a lot of its customers quite happy and they keep publishing their reviews in the record numbers – over 115 per day, every day since Amazon started its shipping. If this flood continues, it will outsell the current Tablet segment champion – iPad 2, our research shows that a number of customer reviews correlates to a number of units sold. Here is the evidence http://blog.amplifiedanalytics.com/2011/11/customer-experience-fire-vs-ipad-2/

My bf got me a Kindle Fire for my birthday and I love it. It's lightweight and easy to use straight out of the box. The first thing I recommend anyone with a new Kindle do is install the nook app. We got our instructions from www.kindlemad.com through google.

It basically unlocks all the Android marketplace apps and unlocks the device. Super happy!

The real numbers will be in the quarterly reports. However Amazon has never released numbers of Kindle sales before just an income amount.

As someone who has bought both a Kindle Fire and an iPad 2, I can safely say they are not in the same league. Yes, there is a large price disparity, but the Fire definitely feels like a version 1.0—or even less, e.g., getting the carousel to stop where you want it to is an exercise in frustration, I've downloaded two apps that ended up with generic icons (and no identifying text!) There's no way to tell what the apps are without launching them, no hardware volume buttons, the power button is in a terrible location, everything is a little slower and jerkier than you'd like it to be, Netflix picture quality is poor (interesting because the quality of Amazon Prime video is good) These are just a few of the issues.

What this really says is that people looking for a low cost tablet are finding a 199 Fire next to a 499 iPad 16 GB, reading the little print tags on built point features, and deciding that 300 dollars for a few extra inches for a screen isn't worth it (not knowing or caring what else that 300 is going toward). What is going to happen, just like with all pervious devices, they're going find out that "it's not an iPad" and send it back.

There is no low cost tablet like there is in the PC market that people are used to. There is no Dell of tablets, the componet costs say as much. Any reduction in price comes with a reduction in quality, which means "it's not an iPad."

Could the Fire take over the low end of tables, quite possibly, but won't really be a patch on the rest of the iPad dominance.

the Kfire is for poor people. Not power users or media buffs. sorry.

This seems like a meaningless article. News sources create these artificial comparrisons so that they can report that someone beat Apple at something.

To begin with a seven inch tablet should be compared with another seven inch tablet to get a head to head match. Secondly if you want to compare it with the iPad then have the balls to compare it with all iPads. Thirdly Best Buy is a declining chain. If you want to compare the fire to the iPad then do it for all sales not just puny Best Buy sales.

What's next a comparrison between summer icecream sales and ipad sales from adjacent stores?

Why does TUAW report this nonsence?

Yes, there's a lot of spin out there trying to prop up the Kindle Fire as somehow besting the iPad, which may or may not happen. I'm not sure how Apple is going to respond to the Fire, or if they even need to.

I will say this, though... when was the last time you heard of an Android tablet outselling an iPad? That's amazing feat, and proves that the device itself is irrelevant - the brand and ecosystem supporting the device, as well as marketing what you can do with the tablet rather than selling on spec alone, are what consumers truly care about.

I have a laptop and a smartphone. I've used the iPad, and honestly can't justify it for myself. It just isn't a device I would use all the time, which makes sinking $500+ into it not a value proposition for me. For $199, the Kindle Fire delivers exactly what I want from a tablet - a portable touch screen media player and browser that I can take with me anywhere - yet, I don't feel guilty if I don't use it every day. It's an insanely great price for something that has a lot of potential, and I'm happy with it.

I am someone who has tested over 20 Android Tablets this year and do also own a iPad2. I would say the Kindle Fire is a bit of a letdown, but a good try for Amazon. The weight, buggy rotation hiccups, poor capactive touch responsiveness, battery life, slow performance during scrolling through apps and using the web, were big cons to me. ( software updates can address a lot of these issues and make it perform much better, but not great for a new launch). At $200.00 I guess I could let a few of Amazon's choices go, but testing out a Archos 7 Android Tablet at $150.00 and it clearly smokes the Fire into pieces, I will not let down on my criticisms. I'm sure the Kindle Fire DX or 1.02 or 2 will be awesome, when it release next year, hopefully a 3G/4G/LTE model is also available.