‘Millions More’ May Own A Kindle Fire, Bezos Says

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‘Millions More’ May Own A Kindle Fire, Bezos Says

October 25th, 2011 ipadoholic Leave a comment Go to comments

Amazon.com owner and CEO Jeff Bezos told investors currently that his firm is “building millions more” Kindle Fire tablets than originally planned.

Bezos’ brag came during Amazon’s discussion call with investors to inform its third-quarter earnings, that did not disturb the marketplace scarcely as ample as the Kindle Fire is assumingly interesting consumers. The figures did not live up to Wall Street’s expectations , and Amazon’s batch cost took a large dive in after-hours trading.

“September 28th was the greatest demand day ever for Kindle–even bigger than formerly legal holiday summit days,” Bezos said, referring to the dash of orders that came right away after Amazon voiced 4 new Kindles, inclusive the Fire–priced at $199, reduction than half that of an iPad –and a new vanilla-color Kindle with the cost slashed to $79. “In the 3 weeks given launch, orders for electronic-ink Kindles are twice the formerly launch. And formed on what we’re saying with Kindle Fire preorders, we’re stepping up capacity.”

One new inform projected that Amazon could liner as many as 5 million tablets in the fourth entertain of 2011. That’s reduction than half the quarterly amount of iPads that Apple ships, but by a few estimates, it is more than a million units aloft than the complete number of Android Honeycomb tablets currently in the hands of consumers.