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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Personally, I think all smart phone, tablet and eReader sales will plummet soon. How many of them do we really need? Why do I really need FOUR eReaders to be able to read 2 eBooks in 2 months?
I think the economy won't help either once the Fed buying of Treasury securities collapses as folks realize it was just a huge manipulation of the world currencies.
The Kindles and iPads we have today may have to last for another 10 years like the fancy radios and cars of the 1920's had to last folks for the entire 1930's.
This reminds me of 1928 when the latest RCA radios and Victrolas were sweeping the planet and there was no end in sight. Everyone and his brother had to buy those Model "A" Fords soon to replace the Model "T" Fords as the wave of the "future."
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No iPad or Kindle in use today will last 10 years. No way.
The difference is, with iPads and Kindles, you are not completely in control of that decision. The longer a person stays with a particular ecosystem, the greater the investment (time/money/devices) and the greater the incentive to keep with them.
Apple is in a position where they can essentially institute a forced march of iOS devices to 7.x (for those device capable of running it) by providing/requiring a 7.x-specific API that would render the app incompatible with older versions.
My iPad 4 is still running iOS 6.1.3. I have 100 apps installed and daily there are 2-3 updates to those apps that require 7.0. So the pressure increases each day to forgo the enhancements of those apps or give in and install 7.0.
Amazon isn't quite there... they don't have the pull at this point that Apple does. But once they DO get there, they'll do the same thing.
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Originally Posted by sirmaru
I find this poll highly significant showing that 17 are not interested in a Kindle Fire HDX at all versus only 6 who purchased one. It could be the canary in the coal mine.
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I believe that you are right about that. There's been too much churn, IMO, with the Kindle Fire line. Too many and confusing options. That is compounded by the various deals on refurbs of all those options/models. Amazon in a sense is competing with itself. Anyone interested in a Kindle Fire
something-or-other (any model/gen) new or refurbed can find it.
That's the dilemma that Amazon finds itself in. It can't do the new-release-a-year model for devices that are primarily geared towards Amazon services. Amazon's services don't change that much to warrant a new device.
I really like the KF UI, including the carousel, but it needs to be customizable. Updates to the UI have been minimal and slow so I've lost hope in seeing the UI ever get to a point that would be acceptable to me.
So in the meantime, I'm running my KFHD with Nova Launcher but stock OS... that combo, IMO, is still superior to the Nexus 7.