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why is Amazon in this list? Kindle, I suspect. Remember, this is being written by Tim O'Reilly, a person who has reason to know and care about the Kindle's po
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
why is Amazon in this list?
Kindle, I suspect.
Remember, this is being written by Tim O'Reilly, a person who has reason to know and care about the Kindle's position in the digital-text marketplace and the relative openness (or lack of openness) of the platform.
I agree that Amazon Web Services doesn't seem to belong on this list. AWS is a powerful offering, but it's not as if Amazon has an exclusive lock on the Linux virtual server business. I believe that even their provisioning API is in the process of being cloned in open source.
- lecha 17y agoAh yes, thanks. Kindle slipped my mind. It makes sense now. Kindle does have a potential to become a walled-garden ecosystem reminiscent to Apple. There's nothing Kindle wants more than to become an iPod of books and will very likely curb the Web experience on Kindle to suit its business needs.