Kindle Fire Grabbing Control of Android Tablet Market: 10 Reasons Why

Amazon's Kindle Fire is an unabashed success, though how much of a success remains unknown thanks to the e-commerce company's refusal to disclose unit shipment sales for its Kindle line of e-readers and tablets. Amazon has only said it sold millions of Kindles and Kindle Fires during the holiday quarter. Furthermore the
company's Q4 earnings were less than stellar, throwing more shadow than light on hardware sales. Still, most industry analysts have crunched their own numbers. But first, here's a level set: When word leaked that Amazon would launch an Android tablet, every high-tech pundit saw it as an affront to Apple and its world-dominating iPad. Speculation is about as iterative as software out of Google, so when further info leaked that the tablet would be priced between $200 and $300, people stopped calling it an iPad challenger and started predicting it would be the first hugely successful tablet to compete with existing offerings from Samsung, Motorola and HTC. Analysts now believe that's about right. Check out why in this eWEEK slide show. - ...

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