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jswinden · 03-08-2012, 04:34 PM

I am not buying into the "larger Fire" rumor mill. Why would Amazon even think about taking on the iPad in that market. No one is going to beat the iPad in their market any time soon.

As far as a 7" KF 2. I'm sure there will be one but I doubt Amazon would do so until next Fall at the earliest. After all, the current KF is reported to have sold 16 million units, and Apple says that about that same number of iPads were sold last quarter as well. So it looks like the KF is doing quite well and really doesn't need a make-over to sell well. Although the KF doesn't compete against the iPad, if the KF sales are truly that close to iPad sales then Amazon is doing something right.

And since it looks like the iPad 7" was just vapor, not that i ever thought otherwise, KF really has no 7" reader competitors of note. The NC and NT might be nice, but they simply are not selling as well as the KF--not even close.

03-08-2012, 04:34 PM	#5
jswinden Nameless Being	I am not buying into the "larger Fire" rumor mill. Why would Amazon even think about taking on the iPad in that market. No one is going to beat the iPad in their market any time soon. As far as a 7" KF 2. I'm sure there will be one but I doubt Amazon would do so until next Fall at the earliest. After all, the current KF is reported to have sold 16 million units, and Apple says that about that same number of iPads were sold last quarter as well. So it looks like the KF is doing quite well and really doesn't need a make-over to sell well. Although the KF doesn't compete against the iPad, if the KF sales are truly that close to iPad sales then Amazon is doing something right. And since it looks like the iPad 7" was just vapor, not that i ever thought otherwise, KF really has no 7" reader competitors of note. The NC and NT might be nice, but they simply are not selling as well as the KF--not even close.