Kindle Fire / iPad - differences

The recently announced Kindle Fire is to sell at $199; while the comparable iPad is about $499 - that is a significant difference.

But ...

The Kindle Fire is smaller (depends on the person if that is good or bad) - smaller screen - but is also lighter to carry

The Kindle Fire does not have a camera

The Kindle Fire does not have a microphone

The Kindle Fire has 8 gigabytes of storage to the iPad's 16 gigabytes of storage

BUT ... the Kindle fire can get you to the Amazon cloud storage - with an immediate 5 GB for free (and more for a reasonable price)

The Kindle lets you get to your Amazon cloud music player (more songs, more storage)

The Kindle gets you to the Amazon Kindle books (although you can also have the free Kindle app on the iPad to get to your Kindle e-books).

The Kindle probably doesn't exactly compete with the iPad - but could cut into iPad sales for the user who wants ebooks, webaccess, music, videos, e-mail reading and doesn't want to pay the Apple price.