{"id":209811,"date":"2010-01-21T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.33929"},"modified":"2010-01-21T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:18:27","slug":"did-amazon-open-kindle-to-developers-because-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209811","title":{"rendered":"Did Amazon Open Kindle to Developers Because of Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has released a kit to let developers create apps for the Kindle &#8212; just a week before as techies expect Apple&nbsp; to debut its much-ballyhooed, but never before seen, tablet-slate-thing. It&#8217;s impossible to know what kind of Kindle apps an army of third-party developers will produce, but it&#8217;s likely that Amazon is hoping that the wisdom of the techie masses will help their product keep up with the lightspeed rumors about Apple phantom product. <\/p>\n<p>I know that my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeganmcardle.theatlantic.com%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2Fdoes_an_apple_tablet_replace_t.php&amp;ei=7X1YS5HjHsjf8AahnaXFAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-ozTCBu0T9yaYKQfBYAAb-SI4lg&amp;sig2=H28G46AYq9qPNKDhlDOq9g\">Megan<\/a> has trouble seeing what need the Apple<br \/>\ndevice is supposed to satisfy. And I agree, to an extent. But I think<br \/>\nit&#8217;s also premature to decide we have no need for a product whose only<br \/>\nknown feature is its flatness. Last night the Wall Street Journal<br \/>\nreported that the Apple Tablet could be a player for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31021_3-10438590-260.html\">magazines, newspapers, books, text books, music, games, and video<\/a>.<br \/>\nHey that sounds cool! But again, if all the Apple Tablet rumors ever<br \/>\nwere true, the device would be able to stream movies while typing your<br \/>\ndictated emails while curing your restless leg syndrome. Also, it would<br \/>\nhave been released two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But the broader point is that even though the Apple Tablet doesn&#8217;t even <i>exist<\/i><br \/>\nyet, the rumors swirling around its non-existence have generated a kind<br \/>\nof gravitational force that&#8217;s pushing Amazon to turn its own device<br \/>\ninto an e-reader-<i>plus<\/i>. Megan and I might have no use for the<br \/>\nApple Tablet, but if the e-reader wars only improve the utility of the<br \/>\nAmazon Kindle, it&#8217;s a win.<br \/><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:bddb2da2501c5a7065dcb75619d3f2cc:iWyvSrTKmfx33f7EUeD5x%2B3wLGEQ0lFQ%2FAncQmygcSUjSxpwoxtJB7R4Zc2%2B2LejMKcTJ6QAYJiU'><img border='0' title='Email this Article' alt='Email this Article' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/emailthis.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:62af2416eac5f66d7098a32de31a8fb4:1T3EDHovAV4QMH27kY%2BjhCtl78dMcD0dS6pG4%2F6b0i2zrspUl0u3zt5YX8IFYP2Bsyd5Xby4MHf9'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/digg.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:b938afef4d6e8fa52e5863cf6725c110:we6as%2Fujx9taudgOde3qx9LLvcRnEJIv4j4tMYedwQqLa5tLP4gKF7yUvqVF7AlUyz75SY7fZcrw'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/reddit.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:f79de33b75f44deabf833f709915e367:0X1MriwEry%2FXAYQ547j2qMiDSGWn1LGgEb%2FgG9FUSEhk%2FttZJmpMyIiOABi%2Frq1IRo5%2B3XK2mxyWSg%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Twitter' alt='Add to Twitter' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/twitter.png'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:37a523aa8ff1f0cb63672a2d958f05bf:CnidmeBVQezUDOeVK2M1A6NF6kzwMwV%2B3AMNMJIT8r7X4ZhoH9KzgQPpdX9hPPp8pHUNbIcR2nJ8'><img border='0' title='Add to del.icio.us' alt='Add to del.icio.us' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/delicious.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:2d5992543b69889f0265e8b70552786a:3jhuKu8DrWmJtuCW%2FMYPIS9UIZysjWX5e7AM9e%2BvxSu%2BW3owmg5klzuFnGDaiUAqjWRCEl7v3X3RJw%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to StumbleUpon' alt='Add to StumbleUpon' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/stumbleit.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:cab8d0e73a4471a6357edadde0ebc191:vWEFQAcNS%2BGVY7CShKZdTl0Afp9jdeQOmo2M5OgGhK0wdrvTU2o%2B4Z4hxnaH9rafBV5YdG%2FMvHHLcA%3D%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http:\/\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/facebook.gif'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=88f0e1bfaf0f86ba5adaa2314f833a52&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=88f0e1bfaf0f86ba5adaa2314f833a52&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AtlanticBusinessChannel\/~4\/M8wZfWS9Sb4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has released a kit to let developers create apps for the Kindle &#8212; just a week before as techies expect Apple&nbsp; to debut its much-ballyhooed, but never before seen, tablet-slate-thing. It&#8217;s impossible to know what kind of Kindle apps an army of third-party developers will produce, but it&#8217;s likely that Amazon is hoping that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}