Re: one million units moved in 28 days
dakretz said:
Try this with a kindle.
well, there are lots of people who will _prefer_ the kindle for the precise reason that it _won't_ do things like that... they wanna read a book, be absorbed in that experience; if they wanted to play a videogame instead, they'd do that. i'm not saying they're right or wrong. but they _do_ exist. the other thing is, you need to know the budget for that app. i'd guess if you wanted to hire someone to make something like that for you as a one-off, you would end up paying a lot. and if you wanted someone to make you an _authoring-tool_ that allowed you to make all kinds of different books like that, you'd be paying ten times as much. keep that in perspective... -bowerbird
I heard the same thing. . .makes me somewhat suspicious of when they announced the 300,000 mark. . . . One doesn't fit well in conjunction with the other. . .in which case I yield my guess.
dakretz said:
Try this with a kindle.
well, there are lots of people who will _prefer_ the kindle for the precise reason that it _won't_ do things like that...
My relatives love the iPad for playing Pictionary remotely with each other. The Kindle could be a much better Kindle, and the iPad could be a much better iPad. I'd have to say that we are still very much in the early innings of ebook reader development.
On Mon, 3 May 2010, James Adcock wrote:
dakretz said:
Try this with a kindle.
well, there are lots of people who will _prefer_ the kindle for the precise reason that it _won't_ do things like that...
My relatives love the iPad for playing Pictionary remotely with each other.
The Kindle could be a much better Kindle, and the iPad could be a much better iPad. I’d have to say that we are still very much in the early innings of ebook reader development.
However, let's not forget that on Apple's list of iPad interests, being an eBook reader was the last thing mentioned. . . . Not to mention how many games are pretty much over in early innings. Personally, I think there will be few more interesting "at bats."
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