Amazon's Kindle Fire: iPad Finally Gets Android Competition

CEO Jeff Bezos takes a jab at Apple

Finally! Apple’s iPad has some real competition.  

After days of leaked reports and rumors, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the Kindle Fire tablet at a highly anticipated New York press conference Wednesday morning.

The $199 device isn’t as functional as an iPad but, at half the price of the cheapest iPad, the sleek multi-media tablet is ready to take Apple head on.

The Kindle Fire may not have the storage, camera or 3G capabilities of the iPad, but given how smoothly it integrates all different kinds of digital content (video, print, music and apps) for those who just want an easy-to-use tablet for consuming media, it's surely Apple's biggest challenger yet.

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