http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/ Engadget Comments for Jeff Bezos chats up the Kindle 2 with Jon Stewart http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
Someone make this stop before a rampage of internet meme's are born...]]>Feb 25th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
I look at it like this - I have approximately 700lbs worth of books on me at all times. Not to mention instant access to the largest book store on the planet whenever I feel like fleshing out my library a bit.]]>Feb 25th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
I wouldn't call that hating...more like laughing and pointing from the sidelines, lol.

And if your retort is something to the effect of "Well he's still bankin and you're not, so you're just hating," then hate I shall.]]>Feb 25th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
I'll pass on a color screen and touch screen, but I will take a bigger display on the next version :)]]>Feb 25th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
Actually if you haven't already I'd read the xkcd on this;
http://xkcd.com/548/]]>Feb 25th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=218392]]>Feb 25th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masturbation]]>Feb 25th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
Stewart is making the usual glib technophobe "arguments", which is kind of insulting when a figure as important as Bezos (CEO of one of the most successful companies in the very challenging economic climate we live in) has taken the time to show up. A good interview involves both talking and listening.]]>Feb 25th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
Fast forward to today. You can order a K2 and have it tomorrow. So much for their being a pent up demand. This isn't to knock the K2. As said, I have one on order. But it's not the "must have" product of any year in the past or foreseeable future. This is different than say an MP3 player. It's still OK to read a plain old book on the subway. Bringing your CD player OTOH would be totally retro.]]>Feb 25th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
If disagreeing with the doubters makes me an apologist, then yeah, the shoe fits. Blowhard? O.K., fine.

I agree that there were reasons beyond demand that the Kindle sold out, but reasonable estimates placed first-year sales around 250,000 and the Sony Readers, which suffered the same shortage of e-ink panels, didn't have any similar trouble keeping pace with demand (as far as I'm aware). It's too early to call the Kindle a complete success, but calling it a failure is already absurd in light of that.

Whatever, I shouldn't be surprised - breakthrough products are always hated on until everyone can afford them (although really successful products continue to draw sour comments well beyond that point). ]]>Feb 25th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
Wow... You don't understand what this is about. I'm too tired right now to write to much about it but the Kindle is a FAIL product. E-readers may not be. They will not replace paper or books but they will have their place. It's how the Kindle is built as a product that will kill it. It's a Geek-toy. And it probably will stay that way. If you buy a Kindle, you are cool! Almost veryone in the Tech-space, podcasting, blogosphere has one. OMG no wonder... Are they all that ... stupid??

All well. If I have come this far I can lay out my arguments against the Kindle and why it will self die soon. Of course, it can selfsustain, but only within the Wall garden that Amazon has set up.

The Kindle. One E-reader. One Device, one manufacturer, one model, one company, one book-store. What happens if I want to give away my book? What happens if I want to sell it to someone else? What is the second hand value of a Amazon-book? How do I read amazon-kindle books on another E-reader? How do O buy from another store? Why can't I read other documents on this thing? THAT'S WHY IT IS FAIL! It's jsut as stupid as buying DRM:ed music on iTunes when they had it before, or buying games on Steam. Ohh great! Now you are for ever locked into the Steam community and you can only play the game when and if we want. And if our service goes out you can't play the game and you can't sell the game or give it away and you can't transfere it to someone elses Steam account and you can't transfer it to some other competing service... You see the problem? I do. I would never buy a kindle in it's current state. First, slash the price to 100 or 50 dollar. And change the model, create an ecosystem, not a Wall Garden! I'm not that gullible. This is a problem. And there won't be a mass market for any e-reader device before they sort this problem out. And if you already have a book, should you not be able to get it for free on the Kindle? Do you have to pay twice just because I consume it on another device? And. If you think a bit, the number of unites they have sold, is not allot. not allot by a long shot. It may sound allot, but it really isn't. When they have sold 50 million unites, they have sold allot. This is like fart in space. Also, they can make 100 unites, and sell those. That means they have sold out. It's to simplify things, but "Sold Out" means nothing! Nothing! it only means that they have sold out. It means nothing else!

Finally. The name is stupid.]]>Feb 25th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 28th 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Not buying it for anything more than $50.]]>Feb 25th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
I like electronic versions of things as much as the next guy but there are just too many other things I would rather spend my money on.]]>Feb 25th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=218392]]>Feb 25th 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/interviews-a-z/#clip142744

Third time's the charm for my Canadian friends.]]>Feb 25th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 28th 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/
You show me a kindle that can stream porn properly...and free up both my hands. :) haha]]>Feb 25th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/jeff-bezos-chats-up-the-kindle-2-with-jon-stewart/Feb 25th 2009 1:15PM