More Than 3 Million Kindles Sold To Date?

on 01/30/2010, filed in Home > Gadgets

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com claims that millions of people now own Kindles, and that certainly surprised many analysts, since most people thought that Amazon would probably have sold 2.5 million odd Kindles by the end of 2010. Reports are coming in that the total number of Kindles sold over the past few years has exceeded 3 million, and that was even before the new model with worldwide data was released. It’ll be interesting to see if the Kindle can keep up its momentum, especially with the Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iPad, and a billion other eBook readers out there trying to dethrone the Kindle.

Amazon: Amazon.com is an American multinational e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces its own consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and is a major provider of cloud computing services with its Amazon AWS service.

Apple Inc: Apple Inc was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne as a computer company wich is often credited to have initiated personal computing. After a meteoric rise in the 80s, Apple had lost the personal computing battle against Microsoft and others in the 90s. But in the late 90s and early 2000s, the company came back to profitability by focusing on less products and started using industry-standard components. Apple's largest business is now in the smartphone space, with the iPhone representing more than half of the revenues and an even larger part of the profits. Read our Apple product reviews to see what the company has been up to: iPhone 5 Review, Macbook Pro with Retina display review

iPad: the iPad is Apple's tablet computer. While not "invented" by Apple (the newton was arguably a PDA), the iPad has re-ignited the tablet format as it appeared at the right time, with the right hardware and apps. the first iPad was launched on April 2010. It was followed by the iPad 2 in March 2011 and a new iPad (gen 3) in 2012.

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