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Originally Posted by kjk
Indeed, Amazon is in a great position to do well, because they won't be selling just another tablet, they will be selling the Amazon experience, and consumers by and large already love the Amazon experience.
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I'm in a tiny minority here but I don't really care much about the "amazon experience." I bought the kindle b/c it was a good price with good features. I wouldn't have cared if it'd been tied to kobo or BN (not apple, since their drm isn't broken)
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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
Everyone thought the Apple retail stores would be the final fatal hubristic cough of a dying company. Equal to the devices perhaps, they have turned out to be Jobs and Co. crowning achievements.
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Apple is doing something right with their stores. When I go to the biggest mall near me, half the stores in there are shuttered and the rest semi deserted. It's pretty sad. The apple store otoh is jumping. I don't know if people are buying, but it's always packed, like there's a big sale (and we know apple doesn't do sales).
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Originally Posted by Ankh
Would you be so kind to elaborate? What is the meaning of these numbers?
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shipped != sold. But android is definitely taking a good chunk out of apple.
A couple of thoughts about tech pundits. 1) When the first iPad came out, a lot of them advised people not to buy the first generation (when they weren't dismissing it as a giant ipod). Now they're mystified that people aren't buying the first gen android tablets in droves. 2) they're way overexcitable, first, drooling over every newly announced tablet as the iPad killer, and then declaring it a disappointment or failure.