{"id":242361,"date":"2010-01-28T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-01-28:article\/419-nevermind-ipad-kindles-flame-to-still-burn-strong"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:34:32","slug":"nevermind-ipad-kindles-flame-to-still-burn-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242361","title":{"rendered":"Nevermind iPad, Kindle’s Flame To Still Burn Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only if you were flying transatlantic the whole day, could you have missed the brilliant lights of reality distortion field hovering over the privileged earth yesterday. Oh wait, I was. Someone who tried to avoid it while being on terra firma—an admirable task—was Douglas Anmuth, analyst at Barclays Capital. In a research note this morning on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN<\/a>), in light of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL<\/a>) iPad launch, he puts it thusly: “The Kindle is still significantly cheaper & will continue to appeal to somewhat of a different market given advantages like E-Ink screen, smaller form factor, better battery life, & lower weight.”<\/p>\n

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—Total cost of owning an iPad (assuming a $30 monthly data plan and 3 yr product life) is roughly 6x-7x the cost of Kindle 2 (priced at $269 and likely going lower). Also, with an E-Ink screen, smaller form factor, lower weight, and better battery life, the Kindle may appeal more to serious book readers<\/p>\n

—While AMZN still dominates the e-book mkt & has an edge in selection, AAPL could emerge as AMZN’s first major e-book competitor as it sells more iPads and adds new publishers to its store.<\/p>\n

—AAPL’s support of e-pub could further increase the pressure on AMZN to abandon its proprietary format putting at risk lucrative lock-in revenue.\n<\/p>\n

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Only if you were flying transatlantic the whole day, could you have missed the brilliant lights of reality distortion field hovering over the privileged earth yesterday. Oh wait, I was. Someone who tried to avoid it while being on terra firma—an admirable task—was Douglas Anmuth, analyst at Barclays Capital. In a research note this morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242361","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\/1998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}