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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
This.
I haven't thought much about this recently (thought about it a lot when I first got a Kindle, again when I considered iPod Touch vs iPhone) but this is a big deal. At least, it's a big deal for me. I would rather save my pennies and buy something big than commit myself to more monthly bills.
The iPad is very shiny. Literally. I might want one someday--a WiFi one. But I want a K3 *first*.
And regarding PDAs disappearing into smartphones--I don't want to have my PDA held for ransom every month. Show me a pay-go smartphone and I'll think about it. In the meantime, an iPod touch works pretty darn well as a PDA, which is a big part of why I got one.
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Walmart has 'em, called Straight Talk, a subsidiary of Tracfone. I haven't tried them myself, but I've seen them.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
And you really shouldn't. Ever.
You literally don't know what's in the thing; their formula is the biggest secret in business.
Everybody has their own philosophy. Coca-cola, like Amazon, doesn't believe in helping their competitors. Let *them* figure out how to make money selling sweet colored water on their own. If they can.
Lots of companies rely on Trade Secrets to protect their business. Others don't even believe in IP. Fortunately, there's room for all kinds.
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Silly, the ingredients of Coke are listed on every can. That whole 'secret formula' stuff is just marketing lore.
As to the Amazon vs. Apple thing - I don't think the iPad is a Kindle-killer, per se, but I do expect that down the road there will be multi-use devices that are better for reading than the current crop of devices. I'm afraid that if they're not Amazon-branded devices, then Amazon will just choose to pull the plug on their ebook business. They did once before.
Amazon may be the 800 lb. gorilla right now, but as technology changes, that is not guaranteed to continue.
But then, prediction is easy - predicting correctly is hard.