[jsankey]

The return rate will be high and Amazon will suffer for it.

The Fire currently has over 8000 reviews on Amazon with an average rating of 3.9. Over 5500 of those reviews give the device 4 or 5 stars. Something tells me the average Fire customer does not have such high expectations.

[phaus]

While they must be included for accuracy, I found that well over half of the 1-star reviews were written by people who knew that they wouldn't like the Kindle Fire, yet ordered one anyways. There were an awful lot of people who complained that it wasn't as nice as the iPad 2 that they explicitly stated they also own. What logical person buys a low-end tablet when they already have what is arguably the best tablet ever made?

[vijayr]

sometimes reviews at amazon are annoying. I was reading reviews for a men's gps watch. somebody gave it 4 stars and mentioned that (s)he would've given 5 stars, if "the product had women's model too". It doesn't make any sense. it is clearly mentioned that the model is for men - why write the review at all? people have weird expectations

[jxi]

What's more infuriating is when people give 1 star reviews to products they've never purchased for bogus reasons like "the price is too high" or "this is not out in my country".

[vijayr]

ha, that is funny. I can't afford a ferrari, so it must be a bad car, super logic !!

I've also noticed this - complaining about a product "not being waterproof" when the product makes no mention of being water proof, drivers not available for Mac when the product clearly mentions windows only etc.

Amazon should allow reviews only from people who actually bought the product, that will reduce at least a bit of stupid reviews.

[bane]

What logical person buys a low-end tablet when they already have what is arguably the best tablet ever made?

Perhaps one that just needs a smaller form factor to toss in their coat pocket when heading out to the coffee shop.

[phaus]

I can see this, but when they are lounging around the house with their iPads do they think that it's a piece of crap because it can't do everything as well as a macbook pro that costs 2.5 times as much? The Kindle Fire comes much closer to delivering the experience of an iPad 2 than the iPad 2 comes to replicating the experience of using a real computer.