The Kindle Fire is emerging as a certified hit for the holiday season. With a few lumps of coal thrown in for good measure. Here’s a look at the Kindle Fire, by the numbers.
- 100M+: Monthly Ad Impressions, November 2011 [Source: Millennial Media]
- 1M + : Kindles Sold per Week [Source: Amazon]
- ~33%: Percentage of disgruntled Kindle Fire owners [Source: New York Times]
- 19% : Growth rate of average daily Ad Impressions [Source: TechCrunch]
- One: Side-by-side comparisons of iPad v Kindle on Amazon [Source: Amazon]
- Zero: Number of non-Amazon app stores for Fire [Source: Gigaom]
No big surprise on the last one, except that Android is continually positioned as an “open” platform. Which implies that Kindle Fire users should also be able to get to the Google Android Market. They can’t. I guess that’s what “forked” means.