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leebase · 01-19-2011, 02:56 PM

I was just thinking as I was reading Apple's quarterly results. Amazon sold some 7 or 8 million kindles this past year (or so analysts have guessed). Apple sold 33 million iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads just in the last quarter of the year.

Add in Android phones and tablets, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 million kindle app devices have shipped this year.

How long will it be true that 80% of kindle sales are for books read on a kindle?

I buy my ebooks from Amazon, not Apple, even though I read them on Apple devices. How long will the shear weight of numbers of these multi-function devices outweigh the dedicated-ness of the kindle?

Lee

01-19-2011, 02:56 PM	#1
leebase Karma Kameleon Posts: 2,976 Karma: 26738313 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: iPad Mini, iPhone X, Kindle Fire Tab HD 8, Walmart Onn	Kindle device vs. Kindle app I was just thinking as I was reading Apple's quarterly results. Amazon sold some 7 or 8 million kindles this past year (or so analysts have guessed). Apple sold 33 million iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads just in the last quarter of the year. Add in Android phones and tablets, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 million kindle app devices have shipped this year. How long will it be true that 80% of kindle sales are for books read on a kindle? I buy my ebooks from Amazon, not Apple, even though I read them on Apple devices. How long will the shear weight of numbers of these multi-function devices outweigh the dedicated-ness of the kindle? Lee