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So people are saying that the iPhone Kindle app, which more or less provides the same ebook reading functionality on Apple’s smartphone, will kill the Kindle. Makes sense actually. After all, why spend $360 on a gadget that can only do one thing, when you can spend roughly the same for a smartphone that multi-tasks? This argument appeals especially to die-hard fans of the Apple “experience”.
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At the same time however, I can tell you that reading text on a backlit display strains the eyes. The e-ink of Amazon’s Kindle, on the other hand, is easy on the optics. That’s still why a lot of us still prefer reading printed words on dead trees, even if literally all books ever written are available through the web browser; no tiring light shines from them.
Future Kindles will definitely display color, free from the limits of grays. And you can bet that development will make Amazon’s reader more attractive; who wouldn’t artificially generated color pages that are easy to read? Amazon has the luxury of concentrating on ebook research, unlike supposed future competitors like Apple who are taking a more broad research towards R&D. What do you think?
i think you are not telling us why kindle wont get killed by iphone.. the thing is that even though the iphone has ”tiring light” coming from it it still does MUCH more than the kindle does (can play games, can listen to music, can call, can take pictures and much more). ok it is a smaller screen but guess what…Apple just announced the I-Pad which has the same screen as the kindle. i m not sure whether they changed the ”tiring” light but i am sure that apple has more experience and has figured something out. and + on the ipad when you flip the pages it actually looks like you are flipping a page from a book. By the way the Ipad starts from 499 dollars so if you have a kindle you might want to sell it :)…just saying.