I don’t own an iPad yet, but it only took 2 minutes of test-driving one to realize a very obvious truth: it is a Kindle killer. Seriously—the Kindle looks and feels at least a decade behind the iPad in terms of functionality and aesthetics. Unless Amazon radically changes something, it’s hard to see the Kindle surviving longterm.
Michael Gerson recently wrote about the iPad in his Washington Post column:
I like my Kindle’s battery life. I can’t type on the iPad’s maddening virtual keyboard. But really there is no comparison. The iPad is one of the most elegant, useful, astoundingly cool objects ever produced by the mind of man. Da Vinci would drool. Newton would show an equal and opposite attraction. Edison would ignore the objections of his wife and buy one, preferably the model with 64 gigabytes. . . .
The combination of the Internet and the iPad has changed our relation to the written word forever. The Information Age is now affordable, portable, intuitively organized and infinitely customizable. All future content, including books and newspapers, will need to assume the shape of this innovation.
You can read the whole thing here.
HT: Denny Burk
