Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software

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Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 4, 2009 @03:52AM from the eyestrain-is-fun dept.

palmsolo writes "The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in sync and read everywhere you go. Readers on the iPhone also now get access to over 200,000 ebook titles on the Amazon Kindle storefront. Check out the hands-on image gallery and video of the Amazon Kindle software on the iPhone and Kindle 2."

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Just what the world needs... by ColdWetDog · 2009-03-04 03:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Thousands of iPhone zombies squinting into tiny little screens, walking into cars, telephone poles, other zombies.This world is getting out of hand.

Actually, I'm just jealous. I couldn't possibly read that tiny little type.

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1. Re:Just what the world needs... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-04 03:58 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  If I were a MacFag,
  I would dress up real nice.
  
  I would have nice, shiny toys
  And eat only brown rice.
  
  I would pay six-hundred bucks
  For a microscopic screen.
  
  I would pay three-thousand more
  For a Blue-and-steel theme.
  
  I want to be like Steve Jobs
  Svelte and thin as a wisp,
  
  I want expensive black turtlenecks
  And to speak and rhyme with lisp,
  
  I want to "think different"
  With generic Intel chips,
  
  I want to make Ricky Martin's toes curl
  sucking in my cheeks and lips,
  
  I want to write "Hello, World"
  In objective-C,
  
  Even though nobody uses it
  Nobody else but me,
  
  People make fun of me
  They try to bring me down,
  
  But I'll keep sucking Steve Jobs' hole
  'till they put him down...no...till my lips are brown? AH, crap.
2. Re:Just what the world needs... by bs7rphb · 2009-03-04 04:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  +1 scary
3. Re:Just what the world needs... by Shikaku · 2009-03-04 04:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  +1 Darwin
4. Re:Just what the world needs... by BrettJB · 2009-03-04 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  -1 Collateral Damage
  
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5. Re:Just what the world needs... by EddyPearson · 2009-03-04 05:03 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It's just a very stylish and aesthetically pleasing form of population control.
  Like a really glamorous Eugenics...
  
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6. Re:Just what the world needs... by rolfwind · 2009-03-04 06:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'm illegally blind. What is the typical punishment if I turn myself in?
7. Re:Just what the world needs... by gclef · 2009-03-04 07:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You probably already have hair on your palms...you've been punished enough.
It's About Time by eldavojohn · 2009-03-04 03:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software
Finally I won't have to huddle around a pile of tinder in the forest, rubbing two iPhones together just to get a spark to light my campfire.

We lived like cavemen before iPhone software.

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1. Re:It's About Time by dosun88888 · 2009-03-04 04:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  if you'd ever fallen asleep with a Mac on your lap you'd realize that Apple solved the kindling problem already.
  Posted from a Macbook Pro on my boiling genitals.
2. Re:It's About Time by blueZ3 · 2009-03-04 04:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Mod parent "-1 Too much information"
  
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3. Re:It's About Time by rrohbeck · 2009-03-04 05:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Don't they have Li-ion batteries? There are much easier ways to start a fire with them. Rubbing, sheesh. How quaint.
  
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Re:Just out of curiosity... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-04 04:07 · Score: 1, Funny

How much does it cost to place these ads on /.?
One sacrificial lamb ... I mean webserver?
Re:Predicted by iamhassi · 2009-03-04 04:09 · Score: 5, Funny

"It's almost like I predicted this"

wait... you predicted that Amazon would someday support iPhones? You're amazing!

What's your next prediction?

mark me as flamebait/troll, i have karma to burn, but come on, that's a pretty dumb thing to say on /., that you predicted that Company XYZ would support iPhones someday.

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Re:Just out of curiosity... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-04 04:29 · Score: 2, Funny

I am Dr. Adewole Areuma and am the managing director of the Union Bank of Slashdot. I would like to speak with you most urgently about the opportunity to advertise on Slashdot. You will gain revenues of up to $20,000,000 US dollars.
Re:Just out of curiosity... by Cornwallis · 2009-03-04 05:17 · Score: 4, Funny

No, what I was saying was: "How much does it cost to place these ads on /.?"
Re:The article doesn't seem to answer a basic ques by megamerican · 2009-03-04 05:26 · Score: 3, Funny

You need a book light for an ebook reader?
Its better than staring at a lightbulb for hours at a time.

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Now introducing: the iPhondle by ChipMonk · 2009-03-04 05:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Why not? Most geeks will use it for their own pleasure.
Re:Tried it out by bitt3n · 2009-03-04 11:25 · Score: 2, Funny

I do the same, but sometimes I kill the author first to save money.

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