The Kindle Fire: It's Not Dead Yet!
The blogosphere has been awash with declarations of the demise of the Kindle Fire, Amazon's e-reader-first tablet. The reports are based on new data from IDC, which show shipments of the Kindle Fire crashing and burning in the year's first quarter.
So who's right? Steve is.
NPD's Stephen Baker disputes that, declaring in a blog post that the Kindle Fire is doing "pretty darn well."
How to Succeed in the Tablet Market if You're Not Apple
Look at all the pretty new media tablets!
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, the ASUS Prime, the Toshiba Excite, the Acer Iconia and the Sony Tablet. They're all sleek, slim and sexy. And they're all trying to one-up the iPad.
Two companies are showing that you don't have to beat Apple's tablet to win in this market. And others are poised to follow.