Fire Tablet VS iPad

My first tablet was a fire. It worked fairly well, seemed more durable than some of the others I looked at. It is nowhere near the Ipad obviously but will perform many functions. One thing I did not like about it, and I dont know if they have fixed it was that you could only use Amazon apps. While they have most, it did limit you on some occasions. By going with an Android tablet using chrome there was more variety in what was available.

Amazon may have fixed the problem, but I know it was a problem a while back.

The Fire tablet doesn’t come close in capability unfortunately.

Like anything else, it depends on what you use your tablet for. The Fire will do quite a few things, and many apps can be loaded with some work and fiddling. Personally if I wanted a tablet I would look at one of the Android tablets, but I'm not fan of the Apple world so you have to take that into account.

I would go to a more generic android platform.

Fire are cheap because amazon wants to lock you into their ecosystem (similar to apple).

You can get a generic android pretty darn cheap that will do the vast majority of tablet functions and doesn't tie you down.

I guess the real question is what do you do with your tablet?

Were you happy with the iPad?
I would never switch.
The new iPad Air comes with a pencil for jotting notes

Apple has many advantages I appreciate including syncing with my iPhone and desk top.

I like the used Ipad 4's, I buy them on eBay. They work perfect for me.

fla-gypsy wrote:
The Fire tablet doesn’t come close in capability unfortunately.

fj12ryder wrote:
Like anything else, it depends on what you use your tablet for. The Fire will do quite a few things, and many apps can be loaded with some work and fiddling.

Truth in both statements ! If your a committed long term Apple user, it will take some time to get used to the differences. If you use iCloud to share/store a lot of pictures/documents or use FaceTime a lot, you are likely doing to have issues.

Apple even more so than Amazon (Fire) want to be you "one and only provider" so they both make cross functionality "difficult". Neither particularly like Google so using Google apps can be a challenge (not that is can not be done).

I have a Fire 8 HD, but have not used it much. Just a bit too small.

Amazon has recently had some AMAZING deals (up to 50% off) on their entire Fire table line (likely there will be new versions before Christmas) that are hard to pass up. I would buy a Fire 10, give it a good 2 to 3 months and if you are not happy, sell it. You won't lose that much money.

valhalla360 wrote:
I would go to a more generic android platform.

Fire are cheap because amazon wants to lock you into their ecosystem (similar to apple).

With a little bit of well documented work, you can bypass most of the Amazon limitation. The big restriction is not being able to download apps from Google and that is easily bypassed.

Fizz wrote:
Were you happy with the iPad?
I would never switch.
The new iPad Air comes with a pencil for jotting notes

I was very happy with it, but am being a little more frugal now due to losses of both my vehicle and iPad, along with another laptop. I won't have a need for note taking, so iPad Pro probably won't be considered. I'll look into the Android units as others have suggested.