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Putting ICS on the Kindle Fire made it crazy fast, and easier to type with. I read many reviews of the fire which had made illogical claims of it being competition for the iPad and nicknamed an iPad killer. I was just mocking the nickname. The reviews were basing it on a kindle fire post root and custom ROM, not the stock setup
 
nickdalzell said:
Putting ICS on the Kindle Fire made it crazy fast, and easier to type with. I read many reviews of the fire which had made illogical claims of it being competition for the iPad and nicknamed an iPad killer. I was just mocking the nickname. The reviews were basing it on a kindle fire post root and custom ROM, not the stock setup
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If you haven't noticed, ANY non-Apple tablet that comes out is pinned as an 'iPad Killer' by the media/tech blogs. It's up to the reader to read between the lines.

Example headline:

"[Insert new tablet name here], The Next iPad Killer?"

Just google iPad killer. See what I mean? Currently it's the Surface. Who really thinks the Surface is an iPad killer?
 
I am currently browsing on a MacBook Pro here, but the only reason I have this is to get me through college. I'm still glad that I decided to buy a Droid Eris back in 09.
 
I have never owned anything made by Apple.

The closest I have come is having the free Windows version of Quicktime on my Windows XP computer and the Safari browser.

I uninstalled the Safari browser quickly and uninstalled the iTunes that came with Quicktime as soon as it loaded.
 
I have a new iPod Touch, iPad Mini, Macbook Air, 27 inch iMac and an Apple TV. Have all my bases covered! I have a Note 2 as my phone :)
 
mikedt said:
Seriously? Comparing apples sic, and oranges here IMO, you have to compare like with like. The Kindle is NO "iPad-killer". It's primarily designed as an e-book reader. The iPad is also around four or five times more expensive than the Kindle.

You can't really judge lag in Android based on just one budget e-book reader. BTW I do have two 4.0 devices, they're certainly not laggy at all.
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To be fair, wasn't the Kindle Fire billed as an iPad Killer in the press and all over the net?

You are correct about some Kindles being less, but their top of the line 8.9" KF is five hundred dollars. Just saying.
 
Bob Maxey said:
To be fair, wasn't the Kindle Fire billed as an iPad Killer in the press and all over the net?

You are correct about some Kindles being less, but their top of the line 8.9" KF is five hundred dollars. Just saying.
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Yep, but that was more because it was being market by Amazon than any technological attributes. I am invoking the "If you don't have anything nice to say" clause about the Kindle Fire. ;)
 
The iKiller meme started years ago and needs to die. It won't, but it needs to.

Famous iPhone killers in their day - the Freerunner Neo and the T-Mobile G1.

Famous iPad killers - original Galaxy Tab and the Xoom.

:rolleyes:

Meanwhile, I own an old iPod nano. Might be first generation.
 
It's becoming a moot point because there are so many android tabs out there now, that no one of them is going to sell better than the ipad, but android as a whole will probably overtake ios in the tablet market within the next year.
 
Lets face it as jhawk said no 1 android tab will ever be an ipad killer but thats not to say that certain android tabs are not better. Its simply because there are just too many android tabs for one to simply overtake and outsell the ipad by itself.

And seriously this ipad killer stuff is really just a media ploy. Oh and the kindle fire never had the specs to kill the ipad it was just amazons marketing skills as said by luna.
 
I owned an iPod nano like 2nd gen but ever since getting my 32GB GNex i really don't have issues with space, considering the Nano was 16GB :p
 
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