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So what happened when Oprah, the Queen of All Media, mentioned on her show that the Kindle is her “new favourite gadget?” According to Ad Age, the amount of traffic to the Amazon website was about six per cent higher than usual on that day. That’s not a hu
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8 months ago
copulating with their iphone/ipods? um, yuck, it's too early in the morning for that image to be floating in my head all day
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While the Kindle may have proved that there is a market for ebooks, other devices will move into the market to compete, and they will be prettier.
8 months ago
The biggest issue, though, between Kindle and other ebook readers such as Sony's is the use of electronic ink, as compared to back light with iPhones, iPods, and other like device. Electronic ink takes no power to maintain a page indefinitely, but the same cannot be said for the iPhone. In addition, there's more surface area with the ebooks--a difference that will impact the older reader, who are primarily going to buy these devices. Lastly, eletronic ink is less of a strain on your eye, and doesn't have the same problems in direct light that back lit devices do.
I think the Kindle has done better than most people think. I also think that people give too much credit to Apple's design ethos, which is based more on form than function. To each their own, though, as it would be nice to see increased reading options for all devices.
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I'm definitely a believer... Amazon may have gotten the industrial design wrong, but they've got the *service* dead on.
Oh, and my Kindle started acting a little flaky a few days ago, with the battery not lasting as long as it used to. I called Amazon, and they next-day FedEd'ed me a replacement device without any hassle.
Personally, I think if they can get the pricepoint down from $360 to ~$200, they'll have a great mass-market device.
8 months ago