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Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War
An anonymous reader writes Forbes magazine points out that tablet computers are receiving some of the biggest discounts for this year's day-after-Thanksgiving sales. "With slowing growth in the tablet market and an increasing array of choices, some of the strongest bargains will come in that sector," they report, noting that Target is giving away a $140 gift card with purcahses of an iPad Air 2 (and a $100 gift card with the iPad Mini or first-generation iPad Air). But Amazon has already launched a counter-strike, posting big discounts online on Thanksgiving day for their entire line of Kindles, including a black-and-white Kindle for just $49, and their 6-inch color/high-definition HD6 for just $79.
For sufficiently loose definitions of "all".
The Kindle Voyage does not appear to be included in this sale, which is a shame.
#DeleteChrome
for black Friday spam. just come to Slashdot.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
I already have a couple hundred Kindles, but I'll probably buy more.
let them war without me, I will be hanging Christmas lights and playing carols on my original iPod mini through fine 70s/80s stereo equipment.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Kindles, like smartphone apps, are just ways to try to get you to buy things.
Sponsored links at the bottom of the page a la Buzzfeed, special deals, a marketing poll, Flash ads out the wazoo.
Fuck Dice.
Only losers who subscribe to the obscene materialism religion give a shit. They will probably get trampled and shot and stalked and threatened for buying up the last items on Amazon.
For me, Friday is "Buy Nothing Day", because I want nothing to do with the fanatic consumerist shit.
Except to reply to Slashdot posts claiming to not care about it, of course.
I have nothing against capitalism. However, Dice's monetization strategy with Slashdot is driving down "audience" (*cough*fuckyoudice*cough*) levels in a death spiral. Payouts for ads are only as good as the number of people who interact with the ads, and if you change the place into a gaudy, blaring shitfest then very few will come back, whereupon Dice decides they should increase the revenue by upping the shit level.
So, while I have no delusions about Communist paradises or whatever, I dislike what's happening here because it's equivalent to a bunch of hobos setting up a shantytown in my neighborhood park and shitting everywhere. I remember how it used to be, and now it's just a shitstained shadow of what the community used to be.
I think the emplacement of Taboola ads was definitely the moment when Slashdot jumped the shark.
Could Slashdot "purcahse" some better editors?
Please buy our crap. Pretty please?
We just want to make our money off your app store purchases.
Look, we'll give you the thing for cost if you'll just buy our crap.
*LOL*
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Be sure to let us know about any actually good deals. Of course, by the time we read about them here, they'll be sold out. But you'll post 'em twice anyway.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You fed a troll. Why did you do that?
Preaching to Gospel!
I've been reading Slashdot since about 1999. It's the growing net stupidity level here that's been driving down audience levels. Smart people grow tired of too many idiotic comments and leave, which changes the ratio of intelligent to idiotic comments. Which causes more smart people to leave and there's your death spiral.
This place has always been a Marxist hangout and even used to have a vocal albeit minority libertarian crowd, but one could learn things here. The libertarians have all but left and I think so have the more intelligent leftists, so all that really remains is dull-witted babies spouting PC rants. Many topics have hardly any discussion under them because they're about technology.
I can relate to that line of reasoning, but seriously: turn off ad block for a moment and reload Slashdot. It's a fucking abortion now.
Nice typo, Timothy. :P
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I've been reading slashdot for just as long and I think you should just leave already.
I quit reading your comment at the term Marxist. I've never met an intelligent person who used that term.
Ive been reading slashdot for 9+ years and ive really noticed the quality has dropped over the last 4 or so years. I dont use adblock so i see all of the crazy ads. Slashdot has turned into a slightly geekier digg (which i hate). Eventually slashdot will have cat videos and standard news, to attract the remaining idiots.
The Target deal, as well as a $100-off iPads deal at Best Buy, were nothing more than the usual doorbuster, limited-to-[unspecified]-stock-on-hand, no rainchecks, bait-and-switch Black Friday crap. In fact, they were sold out on Thursday in my area, because now the stores are open on Thanksgiving. So if you showed up at 5am Friday to battle parking and stand in a long line in freezing rain for two hours, you were just screwed.
This raises the next objection to retail stores being open on Thanksgiving, beyond it ruining the holiday for store employees and just impinging on Thanksgiving in general. Now, if you're the Black Friday shopper type, it's not a matter of getting up at a ridiculously early hour Friday morning to get a deal - you're gonna miss out! Nor is it a matter of popping off for an enjoyable evening of shopping Thursday evening after stuffing yourself. No, now to get any of those advertised deals, you need to skip Thanksgiving dinner and run off to stand in line Thursday afternoon. But I suppose we're not to worry. Eventually, the stores will be open all day Thanksgiving, and everyone will go shopping at 5am Thursday, in plenty of time to get home for Thanksgiving dinner.
" But Amazon has already launched a counter-strike, posting big discounts online on Thanksgiving day for their entire line of Kindles"
They left out the voyage, sadly...
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Fuck apple.