Michael Mace on the Kindle and iOS ecosystems

… the Kindle line is a Volkspad, priced to be the tablet thing that everyone eventually gets for basic content access.

While you are reading up on the topic, it is also worth checking out Mr Gruber’s take on Amazon’s New Kindles:

It’s all about the content, though. That’s the difference that other tablet makers missed.

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The e-ink Kindles are to the Kindle Fire what the music-playing iPods were to the iPhone, and what the iPhone was to the iPad — traction in the mass market based on trust and loyalty.

I didn’t write it and I couldn’t have said it better.

There is no way that you can say that this report is impartial, unbiased or representative of the whole market, but even based on this questionable data, there are two things that stand out in particular:

• The prognosis for the Android tablet market isn’t good (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun)
• The finance market seems to have to got back up off its knees, usually a pre-cursor to growth in the rest of the market

(for the curious, I use Good on both my iPhone and my iPad, v4 and v1 respectively. Good isn’t blackberry, but it is respectable and steadily improving)

Definitely read the whole article, I completely agree with all the points on MobileMe, but in summary:

Topolsky made an interesting observation: that the iPad 2 epitomized how Apple seems to be a generation ahead of its competitors on the device side - both hardware and software - but a generation behind on the cloud side.

… and then a brilliant use of antediluvian (meaning outdated or old-fashioned) which I had to look up:

But the process of getting, say, a slide deck created in Keynote on your iPad open in Keynote on your iMac is downright antediluvian.

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That’s where Apple is behind.

So true.