Amazon joins the trend of knocking Apple in its latest Kindle commercial, three Kindles for the price of one iPad
09/02/2012 |
Amazon has joined the trend set by Samsung in knocking Apple in its commercials. Amazon's latest commercial for its range of Kindle devices goes all out to make the point that you can buy three Kindle devices for the cost of one iPad. That would be two Kindle Fire tablets and one Kindle which would come to a total cost of $477.
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