{"id":6676,"date":"2012-09-08T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2012-09-08T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T17:59:00","slug":"the-second-class-kindles-arrive-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-second-class-kindles-arrive-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"The second class Kindles arrive in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Android offshoot, the Kindle Fire debuted in the US this week.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the big-ticket items such as the 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HD, and the bundled version with 4G LTE support will stay inside US borders, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0083PWAWU\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B0083PWAWU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=allnewewansmu-21\">we <em>are<\/em> getting the &#8216;improved&#8217; Kindle Fire and the 7&#8243; Kindle Fire HD&#8230;<\/a> By getting I mean everyone places their order now, and delivery will be made on October 25th, which gives Amazon enough lead time to build as many that are needed and not have to worry about a warehouse full of Kindles sitting around doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon are clearly working on a long-term strategy and ensuring their home base of America is secure before doing any major push into other territories. It&#8217;s far slower than one used by other companies, but unlike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Android offshoot, the Kindle Fire debuted in the US this week. Not surprisingly, the big-ticket items such as the 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HD, and the bundled version with 4G LTE support will stay inside US borders, but we are getting the &#8216;improved&#8217; Kindle Fire and the 7&#8243; Kindle Fire HD&#8230; By getting I mean everyone places their order now, and delivery will be made on October 25th, which gives Amazon enough lead time to build as many that are needed and not have to worry about a warehouse full of Kindles sitting around doing nothing. Amazon are clearly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25],"tags":[3814,3261,3380,3813],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-just-in-time-shipping","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-fire","tag-uk-avilability","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1JG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}