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Originally Posted by salsaguy
Vacations are for relaxing and not watching videos  |
Exactly.
The thing is, video STORAGE is pretty much the last thing people want on their devices. You can barely fit a whole TV season, along with your favorite apps and pictures, on the standard iPhone/iPad/Android+Windows phone/tablet. Are you really going to spend that $100 more just so you can load those 10 movies you want to carry around?
You know... DVDs and DVD players last quite a bit longer... 10 years even. You're going to replace that thing in two years anyway.
A phone/tablet is not a backup device, people NEED to stop looking at them that way. Load the three films you want to watch on the road, sure, but don't complain that you can't fit your entire library on them.
It's not going to change, believe me.
I'm sick of the people who complain about the Kindle Fire in these forums who don't actually
own the device or
any similar device. I personally have had the same feelings in the past, but I quickly found out that having 100,000 tracks and 20 100MB movies that I'd probably never listen to/watch again until months/years later wasn't worthwhile and that most of it was better off sitting in my hard drive and a shelf to grab whenever I needed it.
Not having access to internet isn't Amazon's problem, not having a credit card isn't either.
It's not just about you. While the Fire is geared towards those who don't have a lot of money for the better tablets, Amazon KNOWS that you will spend those saved $300 on the content they're providing.