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User 509088 Comments (358)
 
as expected. you can use the toy that comes out of the cereal box, which was built to sell cereal or you can use the toy that was made to be played with, which coincidentally sells you cereal.

put another way- some people watch the home shopping channel all day. but most people put up with commercials in order to get the content they want.

the writers who plugged this new toy before test driving- were they short apple?
14 Nov 2011, 08:07 AM Reply Like

dividend_growth Comments (1854)
 
Apple can still make money by dropping iPad2 to $300, but will kill off Kindle Fire.

You can't survive a price war against someone with $82 billion in cash (and fast rising) and leanest supply chain.
14 Nov 2011, 08:35 AM Reply Like

TomasViewPoint Comments (2365)
 
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I would be surprised if Apple got into a price war. They don't like to do that and it would only trigger cheaper devices and more price wars. Maybe Apple comes out with a less complex device that provides the ability to read books and not much else at lower price points.
14 Nov 2011, 07:46 PM Reply Like

rrose39 Comments (299)
 
Not so fast Tomas. Release of the IPad3 is imminent, so Apple may very well follow the IPhone marketing model we've just witnessed by continuing to offer the IPad2 at a lower cost of around $200 to $300.
15 Nov 2011, 01:46 AM Reply Like

tiger8896 Comments (209)
 
Flawed device for sure, said that from day one. Just looking at my phone and I have 70 apps. I wouldn't be able to put any of my music or videos on the Fire and streaming from the Cloud will never be as good as having the content locally. Amazon may have sold 5M of them but I would be surprised if 1M of them don't get returned.
14 Nov 2011, 01:12 PM Reply Like

0ZJ Comments (69)
 
More fools who think the Fire is an iPad competitor, both in the press and in these comments.
14 Nov 2011, 06:38 PM Reply Like

TomasViewPoint Comments (2365)
 
OZJ

I agree. Who said these companies have the same product or corporate strategy and therefore the same success metrics?
14 Nov 2011, 07:44 PM Reply Like

Ray Lopez Comments (809)
 
Fire you say? Reminds me...
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...
15 Nov 2011, 12:45 AM Reply Like

biobat Comments (1682)
 
In other stating the obvious news a Ford Focus doesn't have the speed or polish of a Porsche 911.
15 Nov 2011, 08:53 AM Reply Like