Kindling a fiery new love

I cannot wait for my newest purchase to arrive.  The Amazon Kindle Fire!  Everyone I tell says the same thing “why don’t you get an iPad, it’s so much better.”  Well, for those of you who know me, you know that I am not an “iPerson.” Aside from an iPod, I have/want nothing else that Apple makes.  I do think that the iPad is a novel idea, but I just think that $599 is too much to spend on something that in 6 months will be replaced.  Take for instance the iPhone.  There’s an iPhone, and iPhone2, iPhone4, iPhone 4S and the list just keeps on going and going.  If I make an investment in something I expect it to at least be new for some extended period of time.  That’s why I always buy my cars right after a body style change – that way they don’t date themselves as quickly.  Oh, and let’s not talk about the iPad which came out as an iPad, we’re currently on to iPad2 and I’m sure there is a 3, 4 and 5 already in the works – each with a progressively higher price tag.  Anyway, back to the reason for this post.  The new Kindle Fire, which is basically an Android powered tablet promises to do most everything that the iPad does, at get this - $199!  Books, movies, music, games, internet, Android aps, e-mail, games, WiFi… I can just hear those Apple fanatics gasp as I type this.  “The Kindle doesn’t do this, it doesn’t do that, it doesn’t have this, it doesn’t have that!”  And I know this.  I don’t care about having two cameras and I refuse to add one more thing onto my already $120+ cell phone bill so there’s no need to have 3G.  As long as I have WiFi, email and internet, everything else is just gravy.  Oh, one thing I’m not too happy with…the recent popularity of the Kindle Fire.  I ordered mine about a week after the announcement and it’s not expected to ship until November 29; but, then when you’re selling 200,000 units a day, I’m sure there’s going to be some sort of backorder going on.  Look for a review a few weeks after I get it.