Comments on: A new $139 Kindle to kill the iPad? http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/07/29/a-new-139-kindle-to-kill-the-ipad/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: admin http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/07/29/a-new-139-kindle-to-kill-the-ipad/#comment-17038 admin Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:04:06 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=91050#comment-17038 GK, you are completely right. The iPad is a different class of device in terms of functionality. If my memory serves me, before its official launch the iPad was known to be the "kindle killer". Hence the title. Thanks for your comments. GK, you are completely right. The iPad is a different class of device in terms of functionality. If my memory serves me, before its official launch the iPad was known to be the “kindle killer”. Hence the title. Thanks for your comments.

]]> By: JVD http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/07/29/a-new-139-kindle-to-kill-the-ipad/#comment-17015 JVD Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:32:22 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=91050#comment-17015 What an inane Title to this article. The Kindle has nothing on the IPad. For 3x the money you get a million times the features and versatility. If you're shelling out dough for a Kindle, scrounge a little further and pick up the Ipad. You won't be sorry. What an inane Title to this article. The Kindle has nothing on the IPad. For 3x the money you get a million times the features and versatility.

If you’re shelling out dough for a Kindle, scrounge a little further and pick up the Ipad. You won’t be sorry.

]]> By: GK http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/07/29/a-new-139-kindle-to-kill-the-ipad/#comment-16966 GK Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:56:15 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=91050#comment-16966 Um, since the Kindle app also runs on the iPad (and iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and BlackBerry), the introduction of the iPad could foreseeably have little or no effect on sales of Kindle eBooks, just on the devices. If anything, the rise of e-book sales could potentially be attributed to the iPad, since it opens up a potentially broader market of people who don't want a special purpose device just to read books. This isn't a like-vs-like comparison where a Kindle sale automatically means no iPad sale (and vice versa). Given that all the Kindle does well is display book content (no movies or TV shows, more limited music capabilities, no games, no productivity apps, no Exchange integration, etc etc) its kinda silly to expect a special-purpose device to somehow kill the sales of a general purpose device. Conversely, there will be some (many) who might want the Kindle device in addition to the iPad. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Um, since the Kindle app also runs on the iPad (and iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and BlackBerry), the introduction of the iPad could foreseeably have little or no effect on sales of Kindle eBooks, just on the devices. If anything, the rise of e-book sales could potentially be attributed to the iPad, since it opens up a potentially broader market of people who don’t want a special purpose device just to read books.

This isn’t a like-vs-like comparison where a Kindle sale automatically means no iPad sale (and vice versa). Given that all the Kindle does well is display book content (no movies or TV shows, more limited music capabilities, no games, no productivity apps, no Exchange integration, etc etc) its kinda silly to expect a special-purpose device to somehow kill the sales of a general purpose device. Conversely, there will be some (many) who might want the Kindle device in addition to the iPad. The two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

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