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wallcraft · 10-01-2011, 08:21 PM

Bob Cringely (Kindle Fire: Take three tablets and call me in the morning) is buying three to replace iPod Touches for his kids. He argues that less features are better in this case. It had not previously occurred to me that iPods were a target of the Fire but Bob (and stonetools sources) may be on to something. Based on the reports I have seen the Touch may be languishing at Apple - they seem to be betting that there is no significant room between a smart phone and the iPad. Apple probably does have room to drop Touch prices though, which is a potential disadvantage of Amazon announcing before the big Apple event.

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wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	Bob Cringely (Kindle Fire: Take three tablets and call me in the morning) is buying three to replace iPod Touches for his kids. He argues that less features are better in this case. It had not previously occurred to me that iPods were a target of the Fire but Bob (and stonetools sources) may be on to something. Based on the reports I have seen the Touch may be languishing at Apple - they seem to be betting that there is no significant room between a smart phone and the iPad. Apple probably does have room to drop Touch prices though, which is a potential disadvantage of Amazon announcing before the big Apple event.