http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/ Engadget Comments for Amazon spokesperson affirms that Kindle app for Mac is being 'worked on' 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/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 25th 2009 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 25th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 26th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
1.Bar new posters from providing links
2.(My apologies to legitimate posters from the area) Require manual approval of all new accounts created from chinese ip addresses.

]]>Oct 24th 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/2. The older article should have been Kindle for Windows.]]>Oct 24th 2009 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
Apple is doing nothing more than BMW does when it refers to its passenger automobiles as "Driving Machines". They are trying to make it sound special and different. The only difference is that BMW won't get all uppity in denial if you call them cars, or automobiles.

So for anyone who insists that Macs aren't PCs, then what would you define a PC as?

So yes you folks are right, it was Apple that is trying to distance themselves for the classification of PC so you should blame them when you sound stupid when trying to convince someone that a Mac is not a PC.]]>Oct 24th 2009 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 25th 2009 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
PCs can evolve too. There are a few systems using EFI too.]]>Oct 25th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
Pretending that they're the same thing because the letters break down to "Personal Computer" is just dumb, or displays that you weren't around when IBM-PC was new and established this shorthand way of referring to x86 systems and their BIOS.

It's no different than referring to tissue as "kleenex", copy machines as "xerox", liquid soap as "soft soap", or vacuuming as "hoovering" (U.K.), among many other things. Language changes, and the current meaning of PC is widely understood by rational people to mean a computer that is not designed to run Mac OS X.

The meaning of PC is no longer "personal computer". It's just PC. It's a word unto itself now.

COPE WITH IT.]]>Oct 25th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
Sorry, but your comment is mostly bs.

Except the fact that the term PC refers to the X86 architecture. Which is what apple switched to.]]>Oct 25th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
In the end, people should try to cut through the disingenuous marketing drivel. Apple knows the machines they produce are PCs. Likewise they intentionally blur the line by acting as if PCs only run Windows, when in reality the classification isn't limited by which Operating system they run.

If you want to have a name for a machine that runs Windows, instead of accepting the PC=Windows garbage, how about call it a Windows Computer or Windows Machine.

The funny thing about the Mac vs. PC marketing strategy is that Apple has specifically chosen to target Windows (software) by attacking the hardware platform. Now that they run on virtually identical hardware from a technical perspective, it has muddied the waters. My opinion is that they chose to use the term PC specifically to avoid saying Windows over and over in their marketing (good marketing avoids using the competitors name too much).



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And they don't really bother trying not to say Windows (or 7, Vista, XP, Me, 95, even 2) anymore.]]>Oct 25th 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 24th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 27th 2009 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/
Also I wonder if the whispernet 1.99+tax fee will be waived for international customers, unlike 'transfer via computer' is now. Maybe they are holding off on the software readers until they've adjusted pricing for each territory, rather than just relying on this universal charge regardless of whether you intend to use whispernet or not.

Whichever way, the more devices out there the better selection of ebooks available from amazon.]]>Oct 25th 2009 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 25th 2009 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/24/amazon-spokesperson-affirms-that-kindle-app-for-mac-is-being-wo/Oct 25th 2009 4:53AM