I certainly do not agree! Order a book using your cell-phone as a browser? I dont think you got the idea. (You shouldnt order from Amazon anyway, but thats a whole different thread). I find it very useful to get stock prices, sports scores and maybe news headlines if I am really bored. Thats what it was designed for, and I think it works great. Just my 35 cents...
That is partly true. I understand and respect amazon applying for and getting this patent. All major companies do this for protection. If they don't, someone else will. This is not the point. The point is that they are using it as a weapon going against B&N. After having gotten the patent they should have sighed in relief over never having to worry about someone else filing an injunction against them. As Tim O'Reilly wrote; their entire online business is based on someone else's invention. They are free to use it, but they shouldn't simply add another brick to the wall and go after others that do the same.
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I certainly do not agree! Order a book using your cell-phone as a browser? I dont think you got the idea. (You shouldnt order from Amazon anyway, but thats a whole different thread). I find it very useful to get stock prices, sports scores and maybe news headlines if I am really bored. Thats what it was designed for, and I think it works great. Just my 35 cents...
That is partly true. I understand and respect amazon applying for and getting this patent. All major companies do this for protection. If they don't, someone else will. This is not the point. The point is that they are using it as a weapon going against B&N. After having gotten the patent they should have sighed in relief over never having to worry about someone else filing an injunction against them. As Tim O'Reilly wrote; their entire online business is based on someone else's invention. They are free to use it, but they shouldn't simply add another brick to the wall and go after others that do the same.