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2009-05-27 , 19:47
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
I saw a Kindle during my recent two-week cruise. It was impressive, and I wanted one.
I am not sure what use one can have for a device that can only display texts bought from Amazon. Maybe that is why I have not seen any Kindles?

You have probably read that newspapers are folding left and right. What are their readers going to do? They are going to be reading online, more and more.
I think you are swapping cause and effect here. The newspapers are folding because people are reading more and more online. And they are no using Kindles for that. Whether they will use Kindles for that is still an open question. Will see.

"One way to win is to go where there is no competition." That is where Amazon went with the size of the Kindle (and black and white), I think. It found a profitable niche.
There is competition in the ebook niche. Ebook readers are becoming a commodity with many Chinese models available. And guess what? They all support open formats! No need to buy from Amazon!

And then there is the Internet Tablet niche, being vacated by Nokia. They had a spot where there was no competition and are abandoning it, for now anyway.
That niche was initially occupied by PDAs. Whether Nokia is still planning to play there is an open question as well, really.
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