Hi. That Angry Guy here. Feeling better, hence more angry.<\/p>\n
If you haven't heard about it yet, there is a huge price war<\/a> going on among companies that sell e-reader devices. It seems that the Apple cart (via the iPad<\/a>) has upset a bunch of people, mainly those people who thought they had the e-book and e-reader device market cornered.<\/p>\n I knew that the $400 price tags on Kindles wouldn't last long, because even though it put many different technologies together in a\u00a0synergistic fashion, it was still a\u00a0device with a singular purpose (as are its immediate competitors like the Nook) - in essence, a digital book.<\/p>\n The iPad, like the Amazon Kindle, didn't introduce any radical new technology; it assembled existing technologies into a neat little package that ends up being greater than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n Tablet computers were conceptualized<\/a> back in the days before GUIs<\/a> were even invented<\/a>, so Apple didn't invent the idea<\/em> of a tablet computer.<\/p>\n Tablet computers, with varying degrees of interaction,\u00a0had been manufactured by other companies since the early 1990s<\/a>, so Apple didn't invent the form<\/em> of a tablet computer.<\/p>\n But Apple did make a computer that utilized a number of robust interdependent technologies, and that computer had the right form and was introduced at the right time to break\u00a0the collective inertia of the buying public.<\/p>\n And even though the competing devices may someday add other functions besides downloading and displaying e-books, the public perception of them is already set. The perception is that the Kindle, Nook, etc., are one-trick ponies whereas the iPad has no boundaries.<\/p>\n And, fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be, perception is reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi. That Angry Guy here. Feeling better, hence more angry. If you haven't heard about it yet, there is a huge price war going on among companies that sell e-reader devices. It seems that the Apple cart (via the iPad) has upset a bunch of people, mainly those people who thought they had the e-book ...continue reading \"AOFM-MWU – Gestalt, Zeitgeist, and Fruition\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}