Friday Night Forum: Fire it up!
Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire has been forecasted to sell over 5 million units when it’s formally released later this year. The ante-upped Kindle Fire is a 7-inch Android-based “stripped down” tablet (no camera, WiFi-only) that, at $199, will cost almost half as much as Apple’s seemingly incomparable iPad.
Those 5 million Q4 preorders already would put the Kindle Fire ahead of Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Color in total sales, seeing as the NOOK just crossed 3 million earlier this year. Meanwhile, iPad sales currently stand at around 40 million since the device first launched 18 months ago, but keep in mind that the iPad sold 3.27 million units in its debut quarter (albeit 7.33 million in its first holiday quarter later that year).
This begs the question…
Has the iPad finally met its first real competitor?
Or will this ultimately become a NOOK vs. Kindle battle for second place?
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Deep breath now…
I’m anxiously waiting for the “official” Kindle Fire support in Corona SDK. It would be awesome to get this before November.
Also, it would be very nice to have a “View As Kindle Fire” on the Corona’s simulator. Or better then that: to have a general device viewing option where we could set the display resolution we want to emulate.
What corona needs is a support for in app purchase for android.. there I said it
And we are anxiously hoping for the “official” NOOK support that seemed so close back in the 2nd quarter and has gone totally silent since
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Is anybody now doing any NOOK stuff in Corona and, if so, how are you doing it?
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-David