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.