DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Kindle: Colour me still unconvinced

  • Jake · 1 year ago
    The blog thing is super dumb, but I guess they're hoping to get some money for things that will require significant cell bandwidth use. That said, this will create a great niche for a web-based RSS reader made specifically to work on the Spindle web browser.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    Definitely, Jake. And how much bandwidth is the average blog going to
    use anyway?
  • Jake · 1 year ago
    Well my thinking is that a blog creates continuous, regular bandwidth use, whereas a book is a one-time (or maybe two- or three-time, but not many-time) bandwidth hit. Depending on how it works (like whether the user can manually check for updates or if it's automatic and occasional), a blog subscription could use up a lot more bandwidth than a book.

    Amazon will have a better idea of how this works, money-wise, once people start using it. I would be surprised if they don't revise this position once the nerds start revolting.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    Good point Jake.
  • Greg · 1 year ago
    Can someone say... Segway?
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    Good one, Greg.
  • Constance Reader · 1 year ago
    Another "WTF?" feature is that in order to download a public domain book to this thing you have to pay, but why would someone do that instead of sending that browser over to the Gutenberg Project or Google book search?
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    Good point, Constance.
  • Constance Reader · 1 year ago
    But it could be that this thing will work. I wrote on my own blog that while it seems really, really stupid to imagine that people would pay for something they can get for free, I looked over at my colleague's desk.

    At the $3 bottle of water.

    So as stupid as it may sound, it has precedent.
  • Norm Potter · 1 year ago
    Look for a wireless Apple tablet computer coming in January 2008.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    depending on the price, weight, etc. that could kill the Kindle dead.
  • Roy · 1 year ago
    Does it do color? Seems aimed at the novel (fiction) market... so non-fiction is out methinks. Personally I will stick with my Tungsten for a while longer.