Amazon's competition here is B&N or rather Amazon is introducing a product to compete with B&N's offering. Apple is in a completely different area.
I don't think so. It was almost a foregone conclusion that Kindle is almost certain to morph into a tablet. With EC2 they have a very strong ecosystem to tap into. Quite a bit of mobile apps rely on cloud to do the bulk of their processing. Amazon can lure all such application developers by giving them a big discount. And that is possible by using the unused processor cycles that Amazon currently has.
Having just an ebook reader is like having a cell phone with no other capabilities than making calls.
It's ironic that the very openness of Internet that made it so popular itself is being challenged. This type of Draconian law has the potential to snowball into a much bigger piece of sh*t where content provider and producers can twist the law to gain all sort of mileage.
It also doesn't behoove well for the sophisticated search engines. Heck..providing anything other than a link to the actual content might become illegal altogether. The case of Belgian newspapers going after Google news is not going to be one of case.
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I don't think so. It was almost a foregone conclusion that Kindle is almost certain to morph into a tablet. With EC2 they have a very strong ecosystem to tap into. Quite a bit of mobile apps rely on cloud to do the bulk of their processing. Amazon can lure all such application developers by giving them a big discount. And that is possible by using the unused processor cycles that Amazon currently has.
Having just an ebook reader is like having a cell phone with no other capabilities than making calls.
It's ironic that the very openness of Internet that made it so popular itself is being challenged. This type of Draconian law has the potential to snowball into a much bigger piece of sh*t where content provider and producers can twist the law to gain all sort of mileage. It also doesn't behoove well for the sophisticated search engines. Heck..providing anything other than a link to the actual content might become illegal altogether. The case of Belgian newspapers going after Google news is not going to be one of case.
Ta..Da..Serves M$ right. Another system moving to Linux.
Oh wait..They moved from mainframes
Ah..Why don't you just say "Bring the army and bulldoze all of MS' office in Redmond"!! That would do the job much quicker..