Monday, May 14, 2012

Is the Kindle Fire's Flame Burning Out?

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Kindle FireAmazon.com (AMZN) turned heads last year with its economically priced tablet, but necks are apparently stiffening up these days.

Tech tracker IDC is reporting that Amazon sold just 750,000 of its $199 Kindle Fire tablets during the first three months of the year, well off the 4.8 million units that it sold during last year's fourth quarter.

There are plenty of perfectly good explanations that account for part of the slide.

  • Of course sales will fall sequentially in the first quarter....

Is the Kindle Fire's Flame Burning Out? originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-11T15:21:00Z.

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