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Originally Posted by leebase
I'm not saying the iPad _IS_ better, but that that there are points in favor of each.
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The tone of your note certainly sounds like the iPad _IS_ better in your opinion.
Well, it's not -- when the purpose of the device is e-reading. The iPad weighs more, has a puny battery life, is more easily damaged, and costs four times or more as much.
Further more, the Kindle platform is device agnostic allowing the end-user to access his/her library on a Windows PC, on a Mac, on a Blackberry, on an iPad, on an Android device, on two different classes of Kindle ... and sync the reading experience, and share the content, across all of them. Plus Amazon provides the most robust commercial content library out there and the best opportunity for content providers to generate income ... which encourages even more content.
Finally, Amazon has books and reading in its DNA; Apple does not. The iPad can become a hugely roaring success without selling a single ebook; not so Kindles. And that, ultimately, is why we can expect Amazon to stay focussed on providing a better reading experience, across the ebook eco-system, today, tomorrow, and on the journey toward the 10th and 20th generation Kindle.