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Three Reasons Why You Probably Shouldn’t Buy A Kindle (Or Other Dedicated e-Reader)

03.25.2010 Books and Literature

Yesterday I laid out Three Temporary Advantages of Dedicated e-Readers. Today let’s talk about the Kindle’s disadvantages and why it might be a better idea to purchase the iPad. Amazon is not a computer hardware company. Amazon wants to sell books and other goods. They see the Kindle as a means to an end. The [...]

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Three Temporary Advantages of Dedicated e-Readers Like The Kindle

03.24.2010 Books and Literature

The iPad approacheth. Is it complete doom for dedicated e-readers like the Amazon Kindle? Yes, but not quite yet. There are MANY advantages of a flexible solution like the iPad, but the Kindle retains three distinct advantages. These may not be enough, and they certainly won’t remain distinctive for long, but they are still very [...]

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Why Apple’s iPad Is Under-Hyped

03.18.2010 Business

April 3rd. That’s the big date. It’s not the Singularity. But it does herald a major shift in the way that ordinary people interact with computers. And if that isn’t enough, I believe that the iPad and its successors will transform not just computing, but several other major and seemingly unrelated industries. Here are my [...]

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Why a Computer is Not Like A Toaster – And Why It Should Be

02.02.2010 gadgets

Recently my wife and I were having breakfast at a local diner and one of the two ladies who own the place and take turns waitressing noticed me checking email on my iPhone. With obvious pride she pulled out her own and showed it to me. She loved it. It was wonderful. But, she asked [...]

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It Ain’t Just Hype – How the iPad Changes Personal Computing

02.01.2010 Business

It’s been a few days since Apple announced its newest product, the iPad, but the hype and overblown rhetoric is only building. So let me add to it. The iPad is the biggest shift in personal computing since Apple introduced the Macintosh. Bigger. This is the move that will eventually put personal computing and access [...]

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