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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Let's see:
Amazon just matched the better features of their competitors (touchscreen, bundled non-english dicts, multi-language gui, library ebooks, color lcd model--although the Fire isn't a reader nor is it locked down like the NC, but still...) and it is merely "iterative" (sic)?
When are those "technical leader" competitors going to "iterate" or imitate some cloud-based features, commercial audio ebooks, tts, real page numbers, 3g, etc?
Come on guys, let's be serious!
I'm not likely to be buying any one of those new Kindles, not do I own Amazon stock, but I'm not going to pretend that Amazon didn't just match their competitors' most prominent features and differentiators, while those same competitors have yet to match Kindle's signature features from years past.
And that's without bringing up the Special Offers.
If Amazon is copying competitors' signature features it is because they are fierce competitors unwilling to yield an inch, with a poker player's mentality. ("I'll see your touchscreen and raise you cloud archival of personal documents and x-ray indexing of ebooks. Your move.") That is a plus, not a minus.
Amazon is a deadly competitor, don't help them out by underestimating *their* technical prowess.
Edit: Fanboyism and misinformation helps nobody; active, vigorous competition helps everybody.
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It's hardly "fanboyism" to point out that Kobo and BN had e-ink touchscreen readers before Amazon and that at least in the case of the BN device you have SD slot support. And before you extoll the virtues of the cloud, some people prefer physical media. That said, the new Kindle family offerings while very cool, are not innovative.