“We're thrilled with the customer response to Fire TV so far -- we're
building more as quickly as we can and we're expecting more inventory next
week”
Amazon spokeswoman Kinley Pearsall
commenting on Amazon Fire TV being out-of-stock
It’s early days yet, but it appears that the Amazon
Fire TV is a bonafide hit
according to Amazon as stated in “Amazon: Fire TV
sellout must mean we're on fire”, published April 11, 2014 12:38 PM PDT by
Joan E. Solsman, CNET News.
The Amazon
Fire TVwas launched on Wednesday April 2nd 2014 with much
fanfare by Amazon, as this 2-in-1US$99
Streaming Box also threw in a US$40 Game Controller as stated in my blog
article entitled “Amazon
launches Amazon Fire TV Set Top and Gaming Console - Amazon Prime Delight
challenges Apple iTV, enflames Cord-Cutter's Nirvana portending Console Gaming
Renaissance”.
No stats were given or numbers, save to say that they said the
out-of-stock situation was a result of backorders and not supply chain issues
i.e. the Amazon Fire TV is so hot, it’s selling like hot bread! Just like the Tablet,
the Amazon Kindle Fire as stated in my blog article
entitled “Amazon
launches a pair of Kindle Fire 2 - ACS-Xerox Call Centers in Jamaica ramp up as
Kindle Fire begin to Sparkle” and my Geezam
blog article entitled “Amazon
sells 5.5 million Kindle Fires in Fourth Quarter 2012 – Apple iPad sales drop
and plans January Press Event”.
To which I’d reply “like duh-uh”, it must
be selling like hot bread at that price, even as hot as the Google Chromecast
HDMI Streaming Stick, which was selling for US$35 when it launched as stated in
my blog
article entitled “Google
launches a 4G LTE Google Nexus 7 and Google Chromecast Streaming Device -
Uninspired Tablet upgrades but US$35 Google Chromecast is the Streaming World's
Blue Jasmine”.
Amazon smartphone cometh – The
Bamboo powered smartphone running Amazon apps
But Amazon appears not to be done
yet, as according to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon
has plans to launch a smartphone in September 2014 as stated in “Amazon,
chasing Apple, Samsung, may enter smartphone market”, published April 11,
2014 2:20 PM PDT by Donna Tam, CNET
News. If true, then Amazon can easily
beat Apple or at least grab a sizeable chunk of the market as I’d predicted in my blog
article entitled “Amazon
set to launch smartphone in Fourth Quarter of 2012AD - The App Economy and the
Increasing Importance of Digical Content”, even though they’re launching
this late.
Although they’ve yet to beat the Apple iPad, their introduction of the
Amazon Kindle Fire forced Apple’s hand as I’d predicted in my Geezam blog article entitled “Amazon
sells 5.5 million Kindle Fires in Fourth Quarter 2012 – Apple iPad sales drop
and plans January Press Event” and my blog
article entitled “Apple
iPad 3 Launch on March 2012 - Amazon Kindle Fire is a Sweet Dream but a
Beautiful Nightmare for Apple”.
Apple thus had to debut their Apple iPad Mini in 2012 making the whole
world realize that there is indeed a market for 7” Tablets as stated in my Geezam blog article entitled “The
Two Towers of Tablets, 7” Amazon Kindle Fire and 7.9” Apple iPad are the Global
Tablet size of Choice” .
Now Apple has shown more faith in the 7” market with the launch of yet a
second iteration, the Apple iPad Mini 2 launched in October 2013 as stated in
my Geezam blog article entitled “Apple
iPad Air’s the World Thinnest Tablet and Apple iPad Mini 2’s a 3DS and Vita
killer”.
If Amazon launches a smartphone, it
will have the same effect on Apple and Google as the Amazon Kindle Fire. I just
hope by then CEO Jeff Bezos perfects his Fall Prevention Technology as I’ve described in my blog
article entitled “Amazon
patents Fall Prevention Technology for smartphones and Tablets - The Research
begins with Amazon’s patent that’s Hyde Park on Hudson”, so at to make his
new smartphone unbreakable, albeit making it out of bamboo would be quite ok.
Here’s hoping it’ll
also come with some sort of Tracking Technology to locate my smartphone. Sorta
like the Nokia Treasure Tag as explained in my blog
article entitled “Nokia
Treasure Tag to launch in April 2014 - Pirates on the Caribbean on Stranger
Tides will find locating lost keys that much easier”. A departure from
Android would also be good, as there’s a need to have alternative Operating
Systems introduced in the smartphone arena.
With 200,000 app
Store and a slowly growing Developer Clan, making a smartphone that sells would
push them into the same arena that Facebook is also pushing into as described
in my blog
article entitled “WhatsApp
VoIP Calling in Second Quarter of 2014 - WhatsApp kills International Calling
at the Advent of Facetime-eqsue Premium Video VoIP Calling on smartphones” but with a physical Device.
Folks, keep
following my blog for any News on the Amazon smartphone with Fall Prevention
Technology and Tracking Technology coming by September 2014.
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