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Originally Posted by Steve_D
Yes, but it's a little bit daft. I mean look at everything else the iPad can do, and the cost is fair...
OK, I recently bought an iPad and am in the honeymoon period, but when I pick up a friend's Kindle, it always feels... I don't know... kind of limited... I guess that's the point, just to be able to focus on the book(s) you are reading, but for me, I get the urge to check my email etc every so often when I'm reading a book on my iPad  |
This is just it. The iPad price is fair if you're a person who wants all the things the iPad does. If you are a person who just wants a tablet for a few things, then it's crazy expensive.
I think the charm of a basic Kindle, not the Fire, is that it's
not made for email. I love reading, but if you give me a simple way to check Twitter and my mail, the desire to do so will intrude on the reading. When I have something I must read in a certain length of time, or I'm really trying to wind down after a long day, I'm going to grab my Touch, or my keyboard model -- whichever is closer.
My Fire is what I tend to use to supplement my laptop during the day -- it's what I use to listen to music while I work, for instance. I tend to use it to check what's going on in the world while watching TV in the evening (Email, Facebook, Twitter, my fave message board.) It's what I use to read a few select magazines. Once in a while, I do a show or movie. It is not where I tend to read books. The price I paid for it makes it worth it, but in iPad is a lot of money for the basic stuff I want.
Anyhow, I think the commercial is not for the people who want a fully tricked out tablet experience, but for people with a similar profile to mind in some ways -- in a household where more than one person wants a device, looking for a dedicated reader for books, but can also appreciate or use a few tablet functions.