With the announcements made today at the Apple conference, the Internet is swelling and contracting with news, speculation and projections for the future.
With Amazon announcing the Kindle Fire in almost direct competition against Apple. A visit to Amazon’s website reveals an open letter to the customer opening as follows:
There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp.
It’s no secret that critics of Apple cite a high barrier to entry in terms of prices as the hallmark of a self-important, elitist corporation, and Amazon seems to intentionally play off of this as the first thing greeting customers to the site.
The Fire and the iPad are both content-driven tablets, but that’s about where the similarities end. Despite this, pundits like to place the two in a digital arena making bold statements about which you will want this holiday season. News revealed at the conference proves that Apple and Amazon are selling separate devices aimed at different crowds.
A lot of the conversation coming out of the Apple conference touches on iOS5, through which the company’s cloud solution will be enacted. Cloud computing has swept the tech world by storm, drifting in from nowhere and quickly becoming a powerful force in remote online file storage and becoming the de facto future of data trafficking.
With the release of the new next iPhone, the Apple device ecosystem will finally be on the same common ground, that is, the A5 processor, opening the gates for a rollout of iCloud.
For those playing at home, iCloud is Apple’s online file storage solution. The customer pays for a certain amount of space to be reserved “in the cloud” (read: Apple’s specialized servers) for whatever files they want, and those files can then be accessed through any one of Apple’s devices: Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Amazon’s approach is based on the cloud as well. Amazon makes use of proprietary technology (EC2 servers and WhisperSync) to speed the transmission of data from servers to devices by up to 95% (100ms to 5ms)
Between Amazon’s bombshell announcement and the iPhone event, it’s a very exciting time for gadget hounds and will inevitably be an interesting holiday season for consumers.
4 Responses to “iPhone 5 vs. Kindle Fire part. I”
Indeed, Apple seems to be the company for the chosen ones. Not everyone can afford to use their services. So that’s where Amazon can win it.
Hi Thomas, I think Rob is right, Apple seems to be the finest company but not everyone can afford, so the Amazon have there chances.
It would have been great if Apple would have released iPhone5. Until id does we have to settle with the 4S. Apple devices are great, but on the other hand, Amazon ones are cheaper, but have a long way to go until really competing with apple’s.
Personally, i think Amazon doesn’t have a chance in beating Apple’s iPad. Apple has strong and impressive impression to a lot of people and i feel that most people wants to get an Apple product despite of its expensive price.