Kindle Fire HD "Best Selling Product" From Amazon

Kindle Fire HD "Best Selling Product" From Amazon 

Kindle News: Kindle Fire leads increase in web traffic share. Apple exclusive-'appstore' claim rejected. Lookout Mobile Security app now on Kindle Fire HD. Throw in the Vowel 2. Amzn 3rd party sales 40% higher. E-readers losing ground?

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The Chitika Insight reports on their survey of "a sample of hundreds of millions of smartphone and tablet impressions from the Chitika Ad network ... drawn from a date range of December 1st to December 27th" and including only traffic from the U.S. and Canada.

Kindle Fire and purer Android tablets gained web share at the iPad's expense -- though, really, not by much.

'...this Christmas marked a serious diversification in tablet shares, with the iPad falling 7.1% in its share in the days after Christmas, from 86.0% to 78.9% following the holiday.
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...This substantial change underscores the inroads non-iPad tablets made this holiday season, reflecting some initial holiday sales estimates released by companies like Amazon.  Their Kindle Fire HD tablet was the top-selling product on Amazon.com on Black Friday. '

  The Wall St. Journal report that Chitika cites actually reported Amazon estimates for Monday following Thanksgiving rather than Black Friday.

  Chitika's graphs of traffic show the Kindle Fire and other Android-based tablets gained market share at the iPad's expense, if only temporarily, but the results are still surprising.

  I was intrigued by the relative numbers for the Kindle Fire, the Samsung Galaxy and the Google Nexus tablets - with the Kindle Fire at 3.03%, Samsung Galaxy at 1.38% and the Google Nexus at 0.92%

Chitika Insights expects "the iPad's share of tablet web traffic will return to the 80% range" but lower than pre-holiday levels, "as users return from vacation and browse with their new device less frequently."

But does that mean iPad owners were not that busy on the web with their own newer iPads during the time when many were buying tablets and on vacation?


A US judge on Wednesday rejects part of Apple's lawsuit around Amazon's use of the term "App Store"
  The Times of India reports that "US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California rejected part of Apple's lawsuit against Amazon.com's use of the term App Store, ruling Apple cannot bring a false advertising claim against the online retailer.
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"In her ruling on Wednesday, Hamilton wrote that the mere use of 'Appstore' by Amazon cannot be taken as a representation that its service is the same as Apple's.

"'Apple has failed to establish that Amazon made any false statement (express or implied) of fact that actually deceived or had the tendency to deceive a substantial segment of its audience,' Hamilton wrote."