Amazon turns Kindle into a platform(gigaom.com)

21 pointsby krtl17 lat temu6 comments

http://gigaom.com/2010/01/20/amazon-turns-kindle-into-a-platform/

3 comments

Meh, OpenInkpot is available for many of the lower end Chinese made eReaders. I'm getting my wife a Hanvan N516 for our aniversary soon, it's just a basic 5' reader but it costs 1,250 R&B which is about US. 183

OK Amazons got the library & the platform, but it's never going to make it in the Chinese market that's for sure.

rbanffy17 lat temu

Remember the iPod: it doesn't really matter if something already exists: thye first company that gets it right gets the prize.

Right now, I suspect something Android-derived will play an important role on e-reader devices, specially if animation-capable OLED or PixelQi-style LCDs take a hold.

Raphael17 lat temu

I see Hangman, 20 questions, and crosswords in the future.

rbanffy17 lat temu

E-mail, contacts, calendar...

chrisbolt17 lat temu

Sudoku.

jacquesm17 lat temu

already on the homepage, much discussion there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066667