http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/hotting?

heating.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/You sound like you work for Microsoft, but if that's the case, ok.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
Many people miss The actual innovations. Stuck are they on IT Benchmarks]]>Mar 22nd 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/so, I work for apple, but someone whose USERNAME is WindowsPhone7Series wouldn't be working for Microsoft? Right...

I love how ass backward as fuck this world is.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
I find the interface for this app interesting because people were saying Apple couldn't really design a book store to look any different than the Delicious Library but this interface doesn't say anything to me other than it's a place to get books so it's definitely possible. Ripping the DL guys off wasn't necessary, even if they technically hired the original staff:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/think-ibooks-looks-familiar-youre-not-the-only-one/]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
What duplicate functionality would that be? Apple doesn't own the Kindle store, Amazon does. How could the Kindle app possibly be duplicating anything that Apple makes?]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Id laugh if apple sued them for using the bookshelf-ish idea. When i saw that pic, the first thing I thought of was...it looks like the bookshelf from the apple book store.....I wouldn't be surprised if apple did sue them for that, its just like apple to do so.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
Are you serious? It's like you only just discovered companies sue other companies for patent infringement!

Patent disputes have been happening for a while. This isn't something Apple just invented.

Granted, you may have just learned to read in the last few months so you get a pass for now.

]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/I don't believe Apple has the bookshelf background trademarked, copyrighted, or patented, but thanks for your useful comment.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
Why would apple sue? They would simply reject it. ]]>Mar 22nd 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
right, and amazon would sue for anticompetitive practices.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
you think apple management said, "sure, we're going to release a directly competing product, but you are welcome to possibly cannibalize our upcoming book store."

APPLE.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
How could Apple sue Amazon for the bookshelf thing, when Apple copied it from several eReading Apps already available on the iPhone - namely the Classics eReader Application - it's EXACTLY the same interface right down to the color of the "bookshelf."]]>Mar 22nd 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
Well obviously that's not true because this article is about how the Kindle store is now available for the iPad. Doesn't that completely contradict your whole theory?

You tools just don't get it. Apple knows (obviously better than you do) that the more functionality the iPad has, the more people will want it. The iTunes store (and app store and book store) is there to make the hardware look more attractive so you'll buy it. The Kindle app will do exactly the same thing for the iPad, in exactly the same way.

How can you not get how this works?]]>Mar 22nd 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
You're kinda stupid huh?]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Actually, even though I am a fan of most things Apple, I really hope this Kindle app makes it onto the iPad. I'd love to see weekly specials from both Amazon AND Apple, trying to vie for my money by offering better deals.

What I DON'T want to see, is books/content locked into either the iBookstore or Kindle app exclusively. I'd find it a little cumbersome to have to switch through book apps because I forgot which merchant I used to purchase each book. An app that shows ALL book/magazine content purchased regardless of merchant which allowed said content to be opened in either app would be WIN.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Intelligence. He Lacks It.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/_>]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/are you really going to buy an eReader dedicated to a single store?

The iPad is still twice the price of the Kindle 2.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
I doubt many people are buying the iPad as an ereader anyway, it's a internet/media tablet that happens to have books on it.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
Not when it comes to reading books it doesn't.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
But, if you're going to compare them as ereaders, then you need to compare them as readers, not as a reader vs. a multi-media/internet tablet.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
If you're going to compare just the e-reader functionality, then you have to strip away 3/4 of the cost of the Ipad.

So, by my reckoning that makes the Ipad way cheaper and way more open than the Kindle. Yeah?]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
>If you're going to compare just the e-reader functionality, then you have to strip away 3/4 of the cost of the Ipad.

Except you can't actually do that can you? If your main use for a Kindle or an iPad is reading ebooks then the iPad is 2x the price of the Kindle for little to no extra functionality.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
You can actually do that. Just times the cost by 0.25.

People that want to read buy a Kindle, people that want to read, surf the web, listen to music, watch podcasts, play games, use productivity software, check emails, use location-based services, use 1000 of custom- designed dedicated apps, buy books from multiple stores.. Those folk will buy an Ipad

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Uhh, you can also get Amazon books, and Barnes and Noble books on an Iphone / Ipad.

But yeah. Buying a book reader restricted to one eco-system is a horrible idea, I guess that's what you don't like about the Kindle.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
If you were going to compare it to a Kindle, compare it to the Kindle DX. It costs a massive ten dollars more than the Kindle DX.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/
>People that want to read buy a Kindle

That was pretty much my objection to that statement in the article.

"So seriously, we ask you, in an age where content is king, are you really going to buy an eReader dedicated to a single store?"

People who just want to read, rather than read and do all the stuff you mentioned, will be the people who won't spend twice as much for an iPad, regardless of how many stores it connects to.

I'm still interested in the iPad myself, both as a reader and for all the other stuff it can do. But, I know there are people who won't want the iPad's extra functionality. There some folks on the Kindle list that I read who already complain that the Kindle has too many features, and that it should ONLY be used for reading.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/kindle-for-ipad-and-tablets-makes-the-scene/Mar 22nd 2010 2:56AM