Gadget Debates
The major debate right now is what to buy for a tablet, netbook, and e-reader…
Many people want portable devices but we’re not exactly clear on what features we really want in the device…
Do we want solely an e-reader?
Do we want to browse the web?
or sadly enough…
Do we want to “work” while we’re mobile?
The devices are all catering to those situations with different styles and sizes.
IPad, Nook, Kindle, eePC, the list goes on… Multi-touch, 4G, e-ink, HTML5, Android, epub, Jolicloud, etc. The buzzwords kill you.
My take on it right now is, is that these devices are all “Iteration 0” devices… Apple’s famous approach to device Caesarship is to put something out there and iterate every year. How many iPods and iPhones have you bought? That’s what I thought…
All of the technology out right now, in my opinion, is throw-away. Now, I know that they are all expensive and we really wouldn’t want to throw them away… but we all know the cliche of “it’s out of date yesterday”… With this, it’s even worse because these are pioneering devices… research devices meant to figure out if “this is what you want”…
The Kindle and Nook are betting on e-reading only… the iPad is betting on it’s multi-touch portable PC tabletism… Netbooks think you really want your laptop with you at all times…
It’ll be interesting to see how they’ve iterated in 2 years…
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