“If you’re hooked on phonics, you’re probably stoked about Amazon’s Kindle, which allows users to load up books, newspapers, and even blogs and Wikipedia articles from the web over-the-air for reading on a slow refreshing, grey e-Ink screen,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted. “But did you know it’s selling half as well as that barometer of epic failure, the Microsoft Zune?”
Dilger writes, “At least one analyst is excited about the potential of the Kindle to become a blockbuster, if only it follows in the pattern of the iPod. In other words, the task Apple accomplished in selling music players should be easy to replicate in any business: eBook readers, PDAs, Tablet PCs, UMPCs, even iPod clones. Since the Kindle sold 500,000 units in its first year, it must be due to sell twice as many during the global crisis of 2009, according to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney.”
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MacDailyNews Take: There’s soon going to be a new version of Kindle. Supposedly, it looks a bit less like something that John Dykstra superglued together back in 1975. It still won’t sell in anything remotely resembling Apple’s iPod numbers.
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