Apple iPad Undaunted to Dominate Kindle Fire and Android

With cheaper prices and features nearly equal, Kindle Fire become a new idol in the line of tablet PCs. In the United States, Amazon tablet is extremely sold well and popularity began to overshadow the iPad. How does Apple respond to this?

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the hairdresser who made ​​the Amazon price of Kindle Fire is not a real competition. He is blaming the action selling cheap it is something that is overbearing, given the high number of sales does not always offset the value of turnover.

Sold for about U.S. $ 200, Kindle Fire immediately hired the gadget enthusiast in the land of Uncle Sam. In fact, in the last quarter, Amazon has managed to sell millions of units. Even so, sales of 15 million units iPad 2 in the last three months claimed to be difficult to pursue.

"Everyone wants to pass up a lot of things on their tablets, so we did not restrict its function in the same category. We do not think people want to buy iPad only for a limited function," said Cook as reported by Gizmodo, Tuesday (24 / 1).

Function is limited to Kindle Fire, according to Cook, not only lies in its hardware, but also some features, such as the abolition of the camera. "While the iPad 2, how many pictures can you capture?" he explained.

If Apple considers himself too mighty for Amazon, what about Android? Cook stated, Android has a weakness in the number of applications.

"In competition tablet, iPad ecosystem is a class of its own. We now have over 170,000 applications for the iPad. We were hundreds of times more powerful in the competition," said Cook.