The Kindle Fire is everything that the BlackBerry Playbook could have been

The Kindle Fire is everything that the BlackBerry Playbook could have been. They contain virtually the same specs and design. They are made by the same manufacturer, using the same design template and materials. But the Fire is exponentially better, or at least it will sell exponentially better, for a couple of reasons.

1. The price:
Yes I know what the people in the comment section are going to say, something along the lines of "Of course it will sell better, Amazon is selling it for about as much as it will cost to make". But the cheap price of the Fire actually will boost profits by Amazon for the simple reason that Amazon won't allow users to access the Android market, instead forcing them to use Amazon's app store, of which they get a cut of the money every time a user purchases an app. So the dirt cheap price will actually positively impact Amazon's profits, and sales.

2. Access to apps:
When the PlayBook first came out, RIM touted the fact that the PlayBook would be able to support android applications. That was in March. It is now October, and there is still no way for the PlayBook to use these apps. The Fire will have access to thousands of applications via the Amazon App store.

3. The web browser:
Most of the features of the Fire were anticipated, that is, all but one. Amazon announced that the web browser that was to be included on the Fire was not to be the stock Android browser. This will be important for a couple of reasons. Amazon Silk, as it is to be called, is far faster than any mobile browser in existence, due to the fact that Silk splits the load between both the device itself and Amazon's cloud services, which both load the page simultaneously.

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