Thank goodness I didn’t get that Kindle I once wanted for Christmas! This is just brutal:
Amazon’s Kindle (along with all the other faux-paper e-ink readers) ignores the fact that all media is evolving–books included. These e-ink readers are nothing more than a cautious step between the old and the new. They’re too married to the formatting and failures of their paper predecessors to take full advantage of what’s possible. They’ll never be as good as paperbacks for quiet, un-powered reading. And they’ll never be as good as computers for multimedia content. Why offer a device that offers a poor version of two experiences?
By releasing an e-reader so hopelessly tied to the paper, Amazon gave Apple an opening to provide something better. If the latest swirl of rumors is true and Apple plans to release a tablet computer, or iSlate, early next year, you can bet your life it will put the Kindle to shame when it comes to digital content delivery. Any e-ink device simply will not be able to compete. I’m not going to reveal any names, but I have it on very good authority, for example, that–unlike the Kindle–the new Apple tablet will, indeed, have a color screen. Might it also … play video?! (Please pardon the sarcasm.)
The Christian Science Monitor writes:
Flying in the face of popularly accepted hypotheses, tech news site QuickPWN insists the iSlate, or whatever it’s going to be called, is going to be a Kindle-slaying ebook reader, and not a tablet PC, citing anonymous sources.
If that’s true and the Apple ebook reader behaves anything like an actual computer at a reasonable price, think how stupid Kindle owners are going to feel.
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