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The jury is still out as to whether Amazon’s Kindle Fire- at less than half the price and lacking some major Apple restrictions- is exactly an iPad killer just yet.
The second big-deal entry to the growing by leaps and bounds tablet market certainly garnered a lot of fanfare, and despite a smaller size and several key differences, it appears the more wallet-friendly device ‘did’ resonate with consumers after its late fall release. According to CNET, analysts believe that the newer, cheaper tablet took a relatively significant bite out of Apple in the lead up to Christmas- the site says:
“We are lowering our unit shipment estimates for iPad in the [December] quarter from 16 million to 13 million. Based on data from Amazon, we believe the Amazon Fire likely sold 4 [million to] 5 million units this holiday season,” wrote Tavis McCourt, a Morgan Keegan analyst.
As a result, the Kindle Fire took away “maybe 1 [million to] 2 million” iPad sales, McCourt said.
It appears Q4 was good for Amazon, and the retailer- always a bit coy with solid sales figures- reports more than a million Kindle Fires shipped each week of December in 2007. Did you pick up a Kindle Fire in 2011?
