Record Weekend for Amazon Devices—Up 3x Over Last Year, with Millions of Devices Sold
2015年12月1日 - 8:00PM
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Amazon Fire TV is the #1 streaming media player
in the US across all retailers—sales on Amazon this weekend up more
than 6x year over year
Millions of 7” Fire tablets sold since
launch—Fire tablet sales this holiday shopping weekend up more than
3x year over year
Echo was #1 best seller across all $100+
products available on Amazon.com this Black Friday
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced that this holiday shopping
weekend was the best ever for Amazon devices:
- The top-selling products across all of
the products available on Amazon.com this Black Friday were Amazon
devices—#1 was Fire, #2 was Fire TV Stick.
- Amazon Fire TV sales are up more than
6x year over year this holiday shopping weekend. From July through
October (the last month for which there is data) Fire TV has been
the #1 streaming media player in the US, across all retailers.
- On its first Black Friday, Amazon Echo
was the #1 best seller across all $100+ products on
Amazon.com.
- The new $49.99 Fire tablet is the
fastest-selling Amazon tablet ever, with millions sold since
launch—Amazon tablet sales this weekend are up more than 3x year
over year.
- The Kindle e-reader business continues
to grow—customers bought hundreds of thousands of Kindle e-readers
this weekend.
“We’re excited that millions of customers will be opening new
Amazon devices this holiday season. This has already been the
biggest holiday shopping season for Amazon devices, and we’re
energized by the year over year growth for all of our product
categories,” said Dave Limp, Senior Vice President, Amazon Devices.
“With a sub-$50 price point for one or $250 for a six-pack, we’ve
reached a tipping point with Fire—it is our fastest-selling tablet
ever. We’ve already built millions—and we’re ramping up production
to build millions more.”
Here’s what reviewers are saying about Amazon devices:
- “Amazon has updated its Fire TV
Stick just in time for the holidays, adding a few welcome
features to the already excellent media streamer…It easily earns
our Editors’ Choice for budget media streamers.” – PC
Magazine
- “Fire TV is the best all-around
streaming box from the three major digital lifestyle platform
providers.” – BetaNews
- “Amazon’s $50 Fire is the Paperback of
Entertainment.” – WSJ
- “For $50, it’s simply the best value
tablet you can buy right now.” – Engadget
- “The Echo may be the closest thing
we’ll have to a Star Trek computer at home.” – CNET
- “With Amazon Echo, it was love at first
sight.” – Re/code
- “If Dickens were alive in 2015, I’d
have urged him to buy Amazon’s new $120 Kindle Paperwhite. …
[Paperwhite] now has a higher resolution screen, a new
easy-on-the-eyes font and new formatting options, making it the
closest digital reading device to a real book.” – WSJ
- “No e-reader has challenged my
page-bound allegiance like this new Kindle Paperwhite…” –
Gizmodo
Here’s what customers are saying:
- “The best money I’ve ever spent on
Amazon - hands down. This device has exceeded my expectations so
far, and it’s still growing every week!” – P. Buchanan about
Echo
- “The Amazon Echo has immediately become
part of our family. The voice recognition is excellent, the sound
quality is better than I would have expected and the
traffic/weather/timer/alarm functionality is very useful.” – Kamus
about Echo
- “Amazon managed to improve on an almost
perfect product :)” – A. Mills about Kindle Paperwhite
- “Absolutely a wonderful reader.” –
DTodd about Kindle Paperwhite
- “Must have device, especially for
Amazon Prime members.” – Q. Moore about Fire TV Stick
- “Bottom line, I’m really ecstatic with
my Fire TV box so far.” – C. Martin Jr about Amazon Fire TV
- “I think this an amazing device for $50
and couldn’t recommend it any higher.” – Heart Dad about Fire
- “Five Stars. My first tablet is giving
me a good intro to the world of tablets.” – Amazon customer about
Fire
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The
company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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