Philip Elmer-DeWitt at CNN Money:
By the time Christmas sales were over, Apple had shipped more than 15.4 million iPads and Amazon nearly 3.9 million Kindle Fires, passing the Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Barnes & Noble’s (BKS) Nook to take the No. 2 spot in global sales.
It’s a pretty stark contrast. The source for this info is iSuppli, which I sometimes take with a grain of salt, but it’s an interesting comparison regardless.
Huh… All iPads versus just the Kindle Fire? It would be nice to see at least the breakdown of iPad 2 versus Kindle Fire, but I’d also like to see total iPad sales versus total Kindle sales (not that we’re comparing apples to apples, but I’m curious).
So you think Apple is still making iPad 1? The only iPad 1 available are refurbs, so most of the iPad sold are iPad 2.
I would just like to see the comparison of reasonably similar products. Kindle Fire vs. all iPads seems very reasonable to me. And next year, so will Kindle Fire 1 + Kindle Fire 2 vs. iPad 1 + iPad 2 + iPad 3.
Looks like the Kindle Fire is a success for Amazon
I thought I read that it was 3.9 million Kindle models (of which the Fire is one). Do we actually have that number from Amazon, in a press release or such.
I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Is Kindle Fire really a Tablet PC! Lacking a lot in features and giving a lot of media, the trade off is not that ballanced! Its really very interesting to see the ransformational nature of personal communication & computing technology in last 20 years.
The analytical reasoning behind the evolution of netbooks to laptop & mobile phones to smartphones to tablet is nothing but the market force which driven the whole communication technology from miniaturization to functionality to large touch screen to portable & faster computing.
Consumers of handheld communication devices in the whole world is currently devided in 3 main groups. The current market rockers are Kindle Fire from Amazon, iPad from Apple & Galaxy Tab from Samsung. Who will get the largest share of the pie entirely depends on the value proposition the product offers. Say, iPad2 is high priced & a highly feature loaded tablet. On the other hand, Kindle Fire is targeting low spenders who love to consume e-contents and dont bother about unlimited storage but bother about price.
And the recent release of Samsung Galaxy Note is nothing but the merging of Tablets & Smartphones is cutting the growth of current hot sellers. This Hybrid product will lead the future of personal handheld device for a long time for sure.