A couple of days ago, Amazon published this nifty comparison advertisement on their website.

The move was obviously a blatant stab at Apple’s iPad mini, and as you can see, from this comparison at least, the iPad mini doesn’t stack up too well against the Kindle Fire HD. However, today, that comparison has mysteriously vanished…

Now, the most obvious reason for pulling the advert would be the Stereo speaker development. Amazon’s final point suggests that the iPad mini only had a mono speaker, compared to the Fire’s stereo speaker. However, on Twitter, Joshua Topolsky alerted us all to the fact that the iPad mini does in fact have stereo speakers, a notion that has been confirmed by Apple big-wig Steve Schiller.

Now just check the image above, did we really need Steve Schiller to tell us that this device has two speakers? Clearly, the guy who created this ad was off reading on his Kindle whilst nature was dolling out common sense. Another reason, may be the recent surge of seemingly glowing reports that the iPad mini has received, despite the lack of Retina display and extortionate price tag…

Regardless, the ad no longer exists, at least for now. Amazon may well be simply tweaking the ad so that it doesn’t portray them as incompetent, ignorant fools… Or maybe, in the spirit of Halloween, it actually has vanished…  What do you think?

@TiP_Stephen