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The Amazon Kindle HD press conference was more exciting. Kindle x-ray is an amazing feature, and the front lit display is really an achievement. I guess apple

by jdavid 14y ago

The Amazon Kindle HD press conference was more exciting. Kindle x-ray is an amazing feature, and the front lit display is really an achievement. I guess apple doesn't have the same fire to innovate that it used to. This might be proof that Patents don't spur innovation.

podperson 14y ago
Really? I found the pacing incredibly slow.
- jdavid 14y ago
  but the products were more innovative. Apple held back calling last year the iPhone 4S, the 5 because it wasn't good enough to bare the name, but this time there are hardly any core feature upgrades, and you get pulled further away from good google services. the iphone 5 is more about flashy hardware and dumping google than it is about wowing customers. the iphone 4s had a focusing lens, siri and was twice as fast as the iphone4. this phone really doesn't wow me at all.
  - podperson 14y ago
    How are the kindle products innovative? I guess the "white" page book reader is innovative in the sense of licensing a new generation of the e-ink tech (and I have to say it make the readers more attractive to me; I never liked the gray one gray displays), and the front-lighting is new and useful. Aside from that they're tablets with literally zero features we haven't seen before, indeed nothing over the iPad 3. Apple just needs to cut the iPad 3 price by 25% and they're not even compellingly cheap. The iPhone 5 may not wow you, but what does that matter? In general each iPhone generation has only really been compelling to owners of two year old iPhones. I thought the iPhone 4S was nice enough but hung onto my iPhone 4. I thought the 3GS looked nice, but held onto my 3G. (For contrast, I have an original Kindle Fire and the new Kindles do nothing for me. Indeed, having bought a Kindle Fire I probably won't buy another Amazon tablet because they're far more crippled than anything Apple has ever done. E.g. I can't read epubs on it.) The iPod Touch is a huge upgrade. It's literally an iPhone without the cellular plan (it has a 4S CPU, but an iPhone 5 screen).
cma 14y ago
Front lit display was a me too feature (nook; kobo both had it).

by jdavid 14y ago

podperson 14y ago

Really? I found the pacing incredibly slow.

jdavid 14y ago
but the products were more innovative. Apple held back calling last year the iPhone 4S, the 5 because it wasn't good enough to bare the name, but this time there are hardly any core feature upgrades, and you get pulled further away from good google services. the iphone 5 is more about flashy hardware and dumping google than it is about wowing customers. the iphone 4s had a focusing lens, siri and was twice as fast as the iphone4. this phone really doesn't wow me at all.
- podperson 14y ago
  How are the kindle products innovative? I guess the "white" page book reader is innovative in the sense of licensing a new generation of the e-ink tech (and I have to say it make the readers more attractive to me; I never liked the gray one gray displays), and the front-lighting is new and useful. Aside from that they're tablets with literally zero features we haven't seen before, indeed nothing over the iPad 3. Apple just needs to cut the iPad 3 price by 25% and they're not even compellingly cheap. The iPhone 5 may not wow you, but what does that matter? In general each iPhone generation has only really been compelling to owners of two year old iPhones. I thought the iPhone 4S was nice enough but hung onto my iPhone 4. I thought the 3GS looked nice, but held onto my 3G. (For contrast, I have an original Kindle Fire and the new Kindles do nothing for me. Indeed, having bought a Kindle Fire I probably won't buy another Amazon tablet because they're far more crippled than anything Apple has ever done. E.g. I can't read epubs on it.) The iPod Touch is a huge upgrade. It's literally an iPhone without the cellular plan (it has a 4S CPU, but an iPhone 5 screen).

cma 14y ago

Front lit display was a me too feature (nook; kobo both had it).