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Apple Tablet: Death Eater to E-Readers?
by Stacy
Are you are one of the many who proverbially turned the page by switching to a Kindle for reading this past year? Well, by opening up the Kindle platform to third-party app developers, Amazon has made some significant efforts to remain competitive with Apple, its line of iPhones, and the much-rumored tablet that is supposedly…
Are you are one of the many who proverbially turned the page by switching to a Kindle for reading this past year? Well, by opening up the Kindle platform to third-party app developers, Amazon has made some significant efforts to remain competitive with Apple, its line of iPhones, and the much-rumored tablet that is supposedly just around the corner.
Amazon just announced its Kindle Development Kit, giving developers the tools they need to build apps for the handheld e-reader. But is this too little too late? It is no doubt an effort to ramp up the Kindle before the Apple Tablet launches, making it more competitive and removing the potential stigma of being solely an e-reading device.
What does this mean for Kindle users? They will have more to choose from for starters, including games, puzzles, a Zagat guide and a bunch of others available for purchase later this year. What does this mean for those of us hesitant to purchase a Kindle because we are dedicated Apple product evangelists? Well for this Apple devotee, the Tablet is on its way and I’m happy to wait.
And for old-school book readers—those of you waiting for a flight in the airport not wanting to lug around a four-pound book but just wanting to swim in a lovely, long, luxurious bath of prose, undisturbed and not tempted by other gadgets, apps, bells and whistles—you can always carry a thinner book around with you. I recommend Mrs. Dalloway.
Read more at Fast Company.
Are you using the Kindle? What do you think?
3 Comments
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, is also available at Amazon for the Kindle for those dedicated to e-reading!
More apps on a an electronic reader seems superfluous to me, in an age when everyone’s pretty much alreay armed with an app-heavy pocket mobile device like a Blackberry. Can’t we make anything that just does ONE thing anymore?
But then the question becomes do we want to carry around 20 devices that each do one thing?
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