H*****h 发帖数: 300 | 1 Amazon Kindle Fire Explodes: 250,000 Pre-Orders in 5 Days
Since Jeff Bezos announced Amazon's first-ever tablet last Wednesday, the co
mpany has taken in more than 250,000 orders for Kindle Fires.
A blog report provides screenshots of Amazon's internal inventory, which rev
eals that Amazon's Kindle Fires have been pre-ordered at an average rate of
50,000 units per day. If Amazon can keep this up, the company will register
more than 2.5 million pre-orders for the Kindle Fire by the time it's releas
ed on Nov. 15, which would break all other tablets' launch day sales records
.
Apple sold 300,000 iPads, pre-orders included, on its first day of sales in
the U.S. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion reports shipping 490,000 in its
entire first quarter.
The Kindle Fire will feature Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities, run on an Android OS
, feature a brand-new Cloud-based browser called Amazon Silk, but it will no
t have a camera or a microphone. Easily the greatest selling point of the Ki
ndle Fire is the price point. At $199, Amazon's tablet is $300 cheaper than
Apple's cheapest available iPad 2.
It's a good thing that Amazon is pre-selling so many Kindle Fires. Each tabl
et reportedly costs $210 to build, so the company is taking a big risk with
such a low price tag. Seattle-based Amazon hopes to benefit from sales of en
tertainment and other services from the handheld platform. | M*****n 发帖数: 2948 | | n*********u 发帖数: 1030 | |
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