[murron]

I’m just curious. I bought an Amazon Fire tablet for 49.99 for myself, and one on sale for 29.99 for my husband. I added a memory card to mine to increase the storage for under 20.00 to mine. I use it for everything, playing games, reading e-books, listening to podcasts, surfing the net. What is the difference between an IPad pro and the tablet I’m using?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

You’re going to go to Apple hell for questioning them.

[angry elephant]

The iPad can run far more business apps than the Amazon Fire can.

I have had an iPad, and now have an iPad 2 and an iPad mini. Will buy another iPad mini when the 5 comes out.

I also have the Kindle Fire, an older expensive one, and it is fine for entertainment, but the closed architecture makes it worse than an Android tablet for running business apps.

[Sans-Culotte]

I’m just curious. I bought an Amazon Fire tablet for 49.99 for myself, and one on sale for 29.99 for my husband. I added a memory card to mine to increase the storage for under 20.00 to mine. I use it for everything, playing games, reading e-books, listening to podcasts, surfing the net. What is the difference between an IPad pro and the tablet I’m using?

It's not clear exactly which Fire you have. If it is the standard Fire, the display is probably not as good as the iPad, and it may be much smaller. I have a Kindle Fire HD 8 which compares well with my iPad mini. My iPad started to malfunction, and Apple could not repair it. Rather than paying the big bucks for a replacement, I bought the Kindle Fire HD 8 for $69. Use of the Kindle is very similar IMO to an iPad. One thing that is much better is file transfer. If you want to import something to an iPad, you have to do it through iTunes. With the Kindle, you just connect it to your PC and drag and drop files (pictures, videos, digital comics, etc) to it like it's a flash drive.

Once I figured out that the Kindle was a worthy replacement for my dead iPad, I also put in a 32 gig SD card.

[Red Badger]

I have the Fire as well. Love it!

For 50 bucks you can’t beat it!................

[rb22982]

"What is the difference between an IPad pro and the tablet I’m using?"

about $400

[Swordmaker]

I’m just curious. I bought an Amazon Fire tablet for 49.99 for myself, and one on sale for 29.99 for my husband. I added a memory card to mine to increase the storage for under 20.00 to mine. I use it for everything, playing games, reading e-books, listening to podcasts, surfing the net. What is the difference between an IPad pro and the tablet I’m using?

I don't know when you bought your Amazon tablet, but assuming it is the latest version of the Amazon Kindle Fire, there is really no comparison in specs. About the only thing going for your tablet is price.

• Amazon Kindle Fire processor 32 bit, 4 core ARM, 1.3MHz with 1 GB RAM, 8GB or 16GB storage built in. Has slot for up to 256GB slower card storage none of which is available on the processor bus. Reviewers report "much slower than average in class." Bench Marks to 4640 (*).
• Apple iPad Pro processor 64Bit 6 core A10X Fusion, with 12 Core graphics processor with 4 GB RAM, 64GB to 512GB FAST storage built in, all of it available on the Processor bus. Dedicated AES 256 bit independent Encryption processor. Reviewers report ". . . wicked fast." Bench Marks to 52,353 (*).
  *3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark. Higher number is better.

• Amazon Kindle Fire has a screen resolution of 171 DPI, millions of color gamut only at 78.4% accuracy at a brightness of 335 NITS.
• Apple iPad Pro has a screen resolution of 268 DPI, billions of color gamut at 98.6% accuracy at a brightness of 600 NITS.
• Amazon Kindle Fire display 1024 x 600 pixel standard definition video playback, 30Hz refresh.
• Apple iPad Pro display 2224-by-1668 pixel high definition video playback, 120Hz refresh with auto drop down when not needed.

• Amazon Kindle Fire audio single speaker.
• Apple iPad Pro audio Four speaker, dynamic switching stereo for orientation of screen.

• Amazon Kindle Fire battery life up to 8 hours (laptop magazine tested to under 7), charge time under 6 hours.
• Apple iPad Pro battery life up to 10 hours (laptop Magazine tested over 11), charge time under 3 hours.

• Amazon Kindle Fire rear facing camera 2 MegaPixels, HDR option, front facing camera VGA (1.3 MPixel).
• Apple iPad Pro rear facing camera: 12 MegaPixel, LED Flash, Digital Zoom, Optical Image Stabilization, Built-in Panarama, Auto-HDR, Burst mode, Live Photos. Front facing Camera: 7 MegaPixel, Flash, Auto-HDR, Burst Mode. Video: FaceTime video calling.
• Apple iPad Pro rear facing Video: 4k Video recording 30 frames per second. 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps or 60 fps,Slo‑mo video support for 1080p at 120 fps and 720p at 240 fps. Front facing camera, 720p HD video recording at 30 fps.

• Amazon Kindle Fire sensors: Accelerometer.
• Apple iPad Pro sensors: Touch ID, Three‐axis gyro, Accelerometer, Barometer, Ambient light sensor, Compass, GPS, NFC, Radio beacon.

• Amazon Kindle Fire Security: No encryption. 5 million malware in the wild, recommended you use third-party anti-virus apps.
• Apple iPad Pro Security: Built in 256 bit AES encryption, fingerprint ID lock, no malware in the wild. No Security breaches in 10 years in the wild.

• Amazon Kindle Fire Networking: Dual band WIFI 802.11a/b/c/g/n (peer-to-peer specifically excluded), Bluetooth.
• Apple iPad Pro Networking: Dual band WIFI 802.11a/b/c/g/n/ac, HT80 with MIMO, WIFI peer-to-peer, Bluetooth, Cellular on upgraded models, NFC.

• Amazon Kindle App Store: limited but adequate selection of apps that are of lesser quality than what is available on the regular Android and iOS store.
• Apple iPad Pro App Store: millions of choices, including access to Amazon e-book reader apps, and multiple other choices. Reviewers find iOS apps to be highest quality above Android and Amazon. . . due to the fact that developers make more money on the Apple App Store and can spend more time doing the development.

• Amazon Kindle Fire gets unlock screen advertising unless you paid an additional fee for the ad free version. Amazon tracks users for sales purposes and markets that data to third-parties.
• Apple iPads do not get any advertising pushed onto the OS at all. There may be ads in the browser, but that's a normal browsing experience. Apple does not track its customers for sales purposes.

Essentially, murron, you get what you pay for. On the good side, in that price range, the Amazon tablet is the best of the lot, exhibiting good build quality. But, according to Laptopmagazine's review, to get to that price point, Amazon sacrificed a lot of screen and audio quality plus a lot of speed.