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Amazon Kindle Fire more sought after now than the iPad before launch, suggests study

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Amazon Kindle Fire more sought after now than the iPad before launch, suggests study
Those who see Amazon's tablet as the first true threat to the iPad's supremacy might be on the right track, if the data provided by a recent ChangeWave survey is to be trusted. According to the study, the Amazon Kindle Fire is currently in higher demand when compared to how sought after the iPad was in February of last year, or about two months before Apple launched it.

Sure, the gap between both devices' ratings might be minimal, but it is definitely there – 5% of the participants said they are very likely to purchase, or have already pre-ordered, the Amazon Kindle Fire. At the same time, 4% of the respondents in an identical survey conducted in February of 2010, expressed very high likeliness of buying an iPad. In addition, the Kindle Fire holds the lead in the “Somewhat likely” category too with 12% versus 9% for the iPad.

Of course, before pronouncing the Kindle Fire an iPad killer or anything, one has to consider that the 2010 survey was conducted prior to the iPad's launch. Or in other words, the general public had yet to be introduced to the whole tablet experience as we know it today. On the other hand, tablets come in all shapes and sizes nowadays and consumers are more than willing to own and use one, especially when they come with a price tag as tempting as the Fire's.

Analysts are predicting that about 5 million Amazon Kindle Fire tablets are to fly off the shelves this holiday season, and with the device's impressive pre-order figures, there is a real chance of that happening. Well, the Fire's launch is only six days ahead of us, so it will not be long until we see what happens.

source: ChangeWave via Boy Genius Report

Amazon Kindle Fire more sought after now than the iPad before launch, suggests study

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1. skymitch89 posted on 09 Nov 2011, 10:26 4

That's because of the price. I'd rather pay $250 for an "e-reader" over $400+ for a tablet when they're both basically the same thing except that most tablets can now connect to 3G/4G.

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3. tacohunter posted on 09 Nov 2011, 10:45 3 2

You're here the iDiot, sometimes even more then taco50.
Go make yourself a site crapple.com or whatever. And post your comments there.

Do you rly believe everyone who has an iDevice is an idiot?

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4. c.hack posted on 09 Nov 2011, 10:58 1 3

Didn't take long for the idiot Fandroid troll to weigh in. Another reason I dropped Android for iPhone.

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5. Immolate posted on 09 Nov 2011, 11:20

This is pretty basic math. The market for a $500+ "tweener" product (between smartphone and laptop) is size "X". The market for a $200 version of the same product is much larger (X times 10?). Amazon won't take a lot of installed base from Apple, but they'll tap a huge market segment that Apple doesn't even compete for.

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6. ardent1 posted on 09 Nov 2011, 19:13

You have a violation in statistical analysis -- you are shifting the basis. This is not a controlled study as in ceteris paribus, but a cross-sectional study at two different time lines.

What I am saying from a methodology perspective is that the iPad survey occurred when they weren't a lot of information about tablets per se. In contrast, the survey on the Fire occurs RIGHT BEFORE the holiday season with lots of tablets to choose from and IT HAPPENS the Fire is probably the cheapest at $200.

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