you could buy the ipad and put the kindle app on the ipad! perfect
you could buy the ipad and put the kindle app on the ipad! perfect
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The Ipad is basically a big toy. Anything actually useful that can be done on it is the product of some amazing app development, but it is hard to get much serious stuff done on there. Now if Amazon is coming out with a less functional competitor I find it really hard to think you will get much more out of that than the books and media that it's designed for. Watching videos of the test model is like watching high school dunk mixtape for basketball players, it's too short and too cherry-picked to provide real information about what it will be like in real life.
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Having an iPad, I used to love it, but now it is the domain of the family. Reading was tough for more than a hour. Everything else is as magically wonderful as Steve promised. Never owned a Kindle of any kind, but they look to be more readable and over all less "fun". Even stupid games like Block Me are a treat on iPad let alone Plants vs. Zombies which I think was waiting for the medium,
Music apps, I can't get enough iPad time to play with, but iOS has a ton, thank goodness the kids are bored of my phone.
As much as Apple tries to say that it's not a laptop replacement, it is definitely the case for me. The only thing I use my MacBook Pro for these days is Traktor and downloading music. Every other daily computing task is done on my iPad (email, facebook, web browsing, etc). It's a wonder to travel with being just over one pound. This is the primary reason why I love my iPad 2.
On top of that, I have games and various audio apps that are fun to mess around with. I'm not trying to do any "serious" audio work with it, but there are definitely several apps that are capable of doing more than just goofing around.
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From what I understand - the kindle only runs "amazon approved apps" and has its own marketplace that severely limits the amount of apps available.
You're going to have to wait for cyanogenmod or something similar. I wouldn't buy one of these on release day and expect it to work with ableton.
Looks like the tablet wars are getting even hotter! Now Barnes & Noble just released their rival to the Kindle Fire...the BN Nook Tablet. For $50 more than the Kindle Fire, you get twice the RAM, twice the on-board storage, AND microSD slot...
http://www.engadget.com/photos/bandn...-leak/#4582450
http://www.engadget.com/photos/bandn...-leak/#4582451
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/03/bar...n-november-16/
So now the new question is: Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet? Go!!
Wait! I'm almost positive that B&N will be announcing a similar product on Monday. It would have to be some form a fully functioning Android tablet as they have copied exactly what Amazon has done move for move starting after the Kindle DX.
Which maybe good for you as if one fails but is still a good product you may be able to grab one for 99$ or less. Kinda like the play books that went like hot cakes.
edit: Looks like GI Trackt dug up some info before the launch kudos.
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