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Old 03-09-2009, 03:16 PM   #1
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Amazon following the Apple Model?

This is kind of a follow-up to Could This be the Future of Amazon eBooks? where I talked about how Amazon could be following in the same footsteps that Apple tread to become DRM-free with their music (and Amazon probable contribution, IMO).

Today, my Google Reader popped up an opinion piece What Amazon and HP Are Now Learning From Apple. The opinion talks about how opening up made Apple stronger.

Quote:
You don't see the iPod or the iPhone taking away from the iMac, for instance. And there is a sense with Apple products that they do, in fact, work better together. However -- and this is the second lesson I'm focused on here -- they also get that their products have to work with competing platforms. If the iPod and iPhone didn't work with Windows PCs, they would likely be a close No. 1 or No. 2 in a much smaller MP3 player market, rather than the dominant leader.

It actually amazes me how many companies seem to want to lock down their offerings and miss out on a massive amount of revenue by doing so. Let's move to Amazon and Kindle.
Now I don't agree that the iPod or iPhone would be number 1 or 2 if they didn't work with Windows. The Mac market is still much smaller than the Windows market. I don't think wanting iPods or iPhones would drive people to buy Macs just to use them.

Anyway, the writer feels Amazon has learned a less from Apple.

Quote:
However, the other lesson that Amazon learned from Apple was to allow the media to move. In this case, Amazon created an iPhone reader, and a PC reader is supposedly coming. For Amazon, it is the sale of books -- not the reader -- that drive revenue, and Amazon appears to be wisely going down the path of letting those books move places where the Kindle isn't.
Note, the bit about a PC reader for Kindle books. This is the first time I've seen that rumor.

What do you folks think? Do you see Amazon moving to open itself to more devices?
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