Why HP's WebOS could be foundation for next Kindle Fire
With a commitment to Android well under way, purchasing HP's WebOS sounds a bit outlandish for Amazon. Or does it spell a path towards differentiation and unique value add?
With a commitment to Android well under way, purchasing HP's WebOS sounds a bit outlandish for Amazon. Or does it spell a path towards differentiation and unique value add?
What happens when Google's Android universe meets Amazon's? Like in Star Trek, the "Alternative Factor" could be a battle of epic proportions.
Three and a half years after its introduction, the most stalwart of Kindle critics gives in not once, but twice.
Time is running out for Amazon and other e-book sellers to comply with Apple's demands to implement in-app purchases by June 30, 2011.
Libraries will need to be replaced with digital equivalents as publishing moves towards eBooks. As a result, will a new "Digital Underclass" be created from the base of technology have-nots?
Amazon's continued secrecy about device sales and demographics will become an ongoing issue unless the company comes clean about who their core audience really is.
Each of these three e-book readers have enough things wrong with them that you should consider the "39 and a half foot pole approach" this holiday season.
Amazon is not-so-quietly building a wall between itself, its competitors, and open e-book formats. It's time to show them that those of us who seek e-book readers without boundaries will not stand for their market monopolization and Soviet-style platform containment.
Covers from the first editions of Hugo and Nebula award winning Sci-Fi Classics. Photo: AbeBooks.
Like a modern day Victor von Frankenstein, who digs up bodies in graveyards in order to bring his creature to life, I was going to scour the Internet for component parts to put this monster together: Der Frankenputer.