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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
But they have to have something more than this?
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What if it is thinner, sharper, faster-refreshing and *cheaper*?
That is one "feature" that can make an instant difference and explains why no touch or color.
Features are nice but Kindle has a decent-enough feature set already--for its target audience--so the question now is how do they want to grow their ecosystem; aiming for a bigger slice of the hardware market and fighting for the affluent buyers that Apple is targetting or by undercutting other dedicated-reader vendors to bolster their online store?
Amazon is in this to sell books, not just readers; that makes the Adobe Adept ecosystem their primary near-term target, not Apple. Apple actually helps because it fractured the unity of ePub DRM schemes beyond what B&N did, *and* because iPad can sell Kindle books just fine.
I'm thinking Amazon woudn't *at all* mind a market split almost exclusively between Kindle and iPad, so hitting Nook and Kobo where they might hurt is likely a higher priority than going after the iPad. Of the two, I suspect Kobo is more worrisome because of its pricing so I woudn't be shocked to see K3 come in at something close to US$200 if not under it.