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    The Kindle Fire Bests The iPad At Best Buy

    Tue, 11/29/2011 - 17:59 EDT - Seeking Alpha
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    By Matt Burns
    Be careful, the Kindle Fire is hot. Burning up you might say. Get it? Because it’s the Fire? Never mind… Amazon’s (AMZN) first foray into the tablet world seems to be a runaway success. The Fire has occupied the top spot on Amazon’s best sellers list for weeks even prior to the device shipping. Now, at Best Buy (BBY), the $199 Fire sits higher the 16GB iPad as the top selling device in the hot category. Yep, it’s safe to say that Amazon is well on its way to officially winning the Android tablet wars. Amazon’s first color tablet had a banner Black Friday weekend. The retail previously stated that it moved four times more Kindles this year than last (although hard numbers were not given). Consumers are seemingly eating up the Fire. The device received a fair amount of criticism from early reviewers. Most wrote offComplete Story »

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