Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires
by davidw on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:43PM
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> The Amazon software is a big value-subtraction to me.
Yep. My Nexus 7 is far more useful than the Kindle Fire. I actually like the Fire, but it's very much based on consuming stuff from Amazon. No Google apps is kind of painful - no Gmail, no Reader, no Maps... Also, the Nexus 7 handles switching back and forth between English and Italian with aplomb. The Fire doesn't seem to at all, and I don't know if they are changing that with this latest update - Amazon is a fairly US-centric company, whereas Google got exposed to the world a lot more via Android.
I wish Amazon would stick to content. I think they're better at it than Google in terms of a selection of music, video and of course books. But I don't think they're as good at producing a device that is designed to be flexible and used in ways that aren't 'consuming Amazon content'.
Yep. My Nexus 7 is far more useful than the Kindle Fire. I actually like the Fire, but it's very much based on consuming stuff from Amazon. No Google apps is kind of painful - no Gmail, no Reader, no Maps... Also, the Nexus 7 handles switching back and forth between English and Italian with aplomb. The Fire doesn't seem to at all, and I don't know if they are changing that with this latest update - Amazon is a fairly US-centric company, whereas Google got exposed to the world a lot more via Android.
I wish Amazon would stick to content. I think they're better at it than Google in terms of a selection of music, video and of course books. But I don't think they're as good at producing a device that is designed to be flexible and used in ways that aren't 'consuming Amazon content'.