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Amazon’s Ad-supported Kindle Price: Too High?

April 12, 2011

TUAW on the release of an ad-supported Kindle from Amazon: “Still, the $114 price point seems a little silly; $99 would be a much better psychological buy-in point.” I think that $25 is a fair reflection of the value of the ads. Remember, these ads are home-screen only, and not in the books. Pundits constantly [...]

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Apple denies content purchasing change, confirms content purchasing change

February 1, 2011

Apple’s Trudy Muller, talking to John Paczkowski: “We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” But wait… “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.” (my emphasis) [...]

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In praise of Kindle

November 13, 2010

Getting the out-of-box experience right with consumer electronics is hard, which is why so many companies get it wrong. With the Kindle, Amazon has produced a customer experience that Apple would be proud of. In fact, it’s arguable that the integrated experience of Kindle is actually better than anything Apple has done. Open the box, [...]

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Apple smartphone growth puts competition in the shade

May 3, 2010

Canalys has released its smartphone market share figures for Q1 2010, and the big winners are undoubtedly Apple, HTC and Motorola, all of which posted treble-digit growth in unit shipments compared to the equivalent quarter of 2009. To put that into a little context: Apple’s worldwide market share increased by 4.4%. This increase is almost [...]

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Amazon caves in to Macmillan, pouts and sulks

January 31, 2010

Macmillan E-books – kindle Discussion Forum: We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Someone should tell them [...]

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