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ssahnan · 11-21-2011, 02:09 AM

when there is a 800lb gorilla in the room is IOS and all its refinements, I do think Amazon dropped the ball on it. Cloud drive support for personal docs and pics should have been a vey easy implementation and by clearly stating the required formats, streaming personal videos should have been doable as well. Over-selling silk was a bad move as well, that browser is shockingly slower from what was promised.

Apple's cloud is actually quite nice for documents, bookmarks, contacts, etc...it obviously fails in media but when the rest of what you offer is so much by leaps and bounds better then the competition, defencies in your media cloud are much more acceptable. I've been a mobileme subscriber for some time and the whole having the ability to have the same set of bookmarks, contacts, etc on every device, pc and mac has always been an enormous plus. Conversely when you release a very limited device from a hardware standpoint and your defense of those choices is your cloud integration, you are more vested into that cloud being a selling point then apple has to deal with. Yet with the fire, i can't even have folders within my bookmarks for organization much less a cloud syncing for it, i havent explored if third party apps add push email but i dont think the default email client is very robust with cloud level syncing/pushing, contacts arent straightforwardly easy to integrate, buying more space on cloud drive is pointless as that doesnt stream to the fire....the cloud side of the fire is a failure in my opinion. it's bottom line is price, you wont get quality but for 200$ you will get a tablet based on a older os.

the fire's singular selling point was it's cloud integration. for every other reason, the nook at 250 is a better buy, sd card slot, better video quality, etc.....so when you don't deliver on what is supposed to be your only competitive advantage, it hamstrings you. i actually bought a few picture books for my daughter on the fire last night...it was such a gross dissapointment to what picture book experience is on ios. you get narration, auto page flipping, it's night and day....then, when you buy these kid's book apps that have interaction built in, forget about it....i wasted money on those kids pic books.

11-21-2011, 02:09 AM	#21
ssahnan Enthusiast Posts: 47 Karma: 50 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kindle3g, kindle touch, kindle fire, kindle ipad 1 and 2, kindle iphon	when there is a 800lb gorilla in the room is IOS and all its refinements, I do think Amazon dropped the ball on it. Cloud drive support for personal docs and pics should have been a vey easy implementation and by clearly stating the required formats, streaming personal videos should have been doable as well. Over-selling silk was a bad move as well, that browser is shockingly slower from what was promised. Apple's cloud is actually quite nice for documents, bookmarks, contacts, etc...it obviously fails in media but when the rest of what you offer is so much by leaps and bounds better then the competition, defencies in your media cloud are much more acceptable. I've been a mobileme subscriber for some time and the whole having the ability to have the same set of bookmarks, contacts, etc on every device, pc and mac has always been an enormous plus. Conversely when you release a very limited device from a hardware standpoint and your defense of those choices is your cloud integration, you are more vested into that cloud being a selling point then apple has to deal with. Yet with the fire, i can't even have folders within my bookmarks for organization much less a cloud syncing for it, i havent explored if third party apps add push email but i dont think the default email client is very robust with cloud level syncing/pushing, contacts arent straightforwardly easy to integrate, buying more space on cloud drive is pointless as that doesnt stream to the fire....the cloud side of the fire is a failure in my opinion. it's bottom line is price, you wont get quality but for 200$ you will get a tablet based on a older os. the fire's singular selling point was it's cloud integration. for every other reason, the nook at 250 is a better buy, sd card slot, better video quality, etc.....so when you don't deliver on what is supposed to be your only competitive advantage, it hamstrings you. i actually bought a few picture books for my daughter on the fire last night...it was such a gross dissapointment to what picture book experience is on ios. you get narration, auto page flipping, it's night and day....then, when you buy these kid's book apps that have interaction built in, forget about it....i wasted money on those kids pic books.