Comments on: One for the Price of Three?

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:41:02 +0000

Good post. It sure is hard to create lasting products in this globally competitive market. I like the new layout of TheLostJacket.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:41:02 +0000

Good post. It sure is hard to create lasting products in this globally competitive market. I like the new layout of TheLostJacket.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:41:02 +0000

Good post. It sure is hard to create lasting products in this globally competitive market. I like the new layout of TheLostJacket.

By: Jackie Adkins

Jackie Adkins — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:14:59 +0000

Ha, I've never seen that specific software. Problem solved…for your online friends.

By: Nicolas Ward

Nicolas Ward — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:34 +0000

But you can get software like Delicious Library, catalog your various media (electronic or physical), and post it on the web for all to see.

By: Nicolas Ward

Nicolas Ward — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:09:23 +0000

I'm very much in the “multipurpose device” school, although I am willing to make sacrifices in openness in exchange for usability (c.f. iPhone). I don't own a TV or a DVD player, I run all my media through my computer (with livingroom display + audio). I don't have an organizer, notepad, PSP/DS, etc.; I have an iPhone.

While the Kindle is nifty as a tech demonstrator (eInk), I agree that my other devices are “good enough” when it comes to reading on the screen.

By: Jackie Adkins

Jackie Adkins — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:46:34 +0000

Plus, everyone wants to have a bookshelf at home where you can show off all of the books you (supposedly) read. A kindle sitting on the shelf doesn't really have the same effect. Moving on...

Something else that's similar are GPS devices. With Droid having navigation integrated for free and iPhone possibly having this on the way (there's an app for that already, you just have to pay for it). So, in a few years when smart phones have even deeper market penetration than today, why would you ever buy an actual GPS?

Good stuff, Stu!

By: JStolarcyk

JStolarcyk — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:48:33 +0000

Except that the Kindle and the Nook are less about being devices that do a specific thing and more about being totems of brand loyalty. You're not going to get a Nook unless you're a dedicated B&N customer. The big reason to get a Kindle? That you can shop Amazon from anywhere on a (debatably) sexy device that has an Amazon logo on it. Targeting early adopters and the people that already love you (and the venn between those two isn't 100% so you're not going to capture all of your loyalists nor all of your early adopters) is not a sustainable business model.

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