2.0WebTutorialsKindle fire vs iPad – Did I mention that Kindle Fire costs 199$
There are quite a few reasons why the Kindle Fire is better then the iPad.Lets´s start with the price. Kindle Fire is $199 while the cheapest iPad is $499. There’s more reasons the Kindle Fire is better, already.
Obviously, if the device was terrible, the price savings wouldn’t matter. But — at least on first impression — the Kindle Fire is solid, fast, and smooth. In fact, it seems to be just as nice, if not nicer than the iPad.
Kindle Fire has flash support
Flash is not dead. It’s baked into many web sites, and I’m talking about real web sites, not just small and unimportant websites. There are quite a few educational websites that are using flash as their engine
Kindle Fire has native USB drive mode
These next two reasons are related. There’s much better access to the Kindle Fire as a storage device than Apple provides with the iPad. For example, you can take a USB cable, plug it into the Kindle Fire and then to your PC, and drag-and-drop documents for later reading.
There are some hacks for this for the iPad, but native USB drive mode is supported, out of the box, for the Kindle Fire.
PC-format document viewer
Once again, out of the box, the Kindle Fire supports PC-format documents, ranging from Word files and PDFs, even to PowerPoints.
Of course here are add-on apps that will do this for the iPad, but the Kindle Fire supports it, out of the box.
Amazon integration
That said, the integration between the Kindle Fire and the Amazon cloud is excellent. There certainly is an iPad-based App store and iTunes store, but their integration isn’t nearly as smooth. iCloud is still substantially untested, and — to be fair — Apple has very little successful experience providing cloud services while Amazon provides them to the entire planet.
Size does matter
There is something deeply satisfying about the 7″ tablet form-factor. It’s possible to easily hold it in one hand like a paperback, carry it around without worrying that you’re lugging an entire window pane in your backpack.
So did I mention that you get all this for 300$ less then the iPad? Well you do. If you think I´m wrong pleas fee free to comment.
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