Apple iPad Replaces Amazon Kindle But What about Google Tablet
Everybody is familiar with the Amazon Kindle and that it’s an outstanding ebook reader. According to the Amazon website the Kindle istheir most sold device, so basically every second person should already own one.
The Kindle’s a cool gadget… for a book reader, but not much else. You can read books, newspapers, etc. with wireless internet world-wide, but for the large pricetag it comes with what else do you get?
Kindle does have text to speech. Yes it does, but who would really use that on an e-book reader? People buy bookreaders so that they can read books, not so they can listen to robotic sounding text-to-speech.
It’s got free sample books you can start to read before buying. Who really wants to do that? If you know of a book that you want to read you would buy it, you aren’t going to want to read the first chapter of a book to see if you like it or not first.
Kindle e-books start at $10 ea. and there are over 400,000 titles to choose from! Yup, that is terrific… but few realized before buying that Amazon can and will delete anything they choose from every Kindle without the owners knowledge or consent? Point in case, they gave for free to Kindle buyers George Orwell’s 1949 masterpiece “1984″ at no charge, and then found out they had to pay royalties for each instance of the book and instead deleted it from ever Kindle device in one fell swoop. Amazon gave Kindle buyers no choice in the process.
Kindle comes with a 9.7″ screen with 16 shades… of gray. Awesome, grey. That is fantastic. I believe it was 1953 when the first color television was released to consumers by RCA and now, almost 6 decades later, we have a $500 black and white Kindle.
But the Kindle must do something right or nobody would buy it, right? Truely the Kindle excels at being a bookreader. One of my friends bought a Sony e-book reader not too long ago, and it was blown out of the water by the Kindle so he ended up selling his Sony partly out of disgust with the unit. If you want a bookreader then the Kindle is tops, it does a fantastic job.
If Kindle is basically an overpriced bookreader what should I look at instead?
In all honesty, the Apple iPad is not something I am going to buy, but is it something that maybe you should buy? My wife has a shop on Zazzle.com where she creates custom kids birthday t-shirts and she could make good use of an iPad but not a Kindle.
The iPad is the same size as the Kindle DX, and starts at only $10 more than the Kindle. For $10 extra you will get a gorgeous color LCD screen, full internet browsing, and pretty much what amounts to be a reworked netbook. So for only $10 more you get a device that can pretty much do all that your laptop does as well as everything a Kindle does as well. The thing about the iPad is that it does everything the Kindle does better than the Kindle does it.
Yes the Apple iPad is very cool, but I’m not spending my money for it. In my digital camera repair business, we do Canon camera repair and like to keep up on new technology, but we really couldn’t use an iPad to do everything we would want it to do. The other reason is that the soon to be released Google tablet it is going to make the iPad outdated junk overnight the same as the iPad did to the Kindle.
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