Ding ding. Reading any sizable length of text on a backlit-style screen is miserable. For that reason, the iPad makes a terrible ebook platform. The reflective-style screens on the Amazon Kindle and the B&N Nook make them vastly superior offerings for reading-centric activities. Sure, it does a lot of other things, but a lot of people are offering it as a Kindle/Nook killer and it just quite frankly is a horrible platform for reading IMO.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:06 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition? > > I guess it depends. I don't own a kindle, a family member does. Key > difference: I can sit outside and read a kindle. Try to read an > iphone out in the sun. You can't. It might as well be a rock. > > So, as a book, its a good curl on the couch kind of book. But > worthless outside. As a tablet pc, it can't print, export documents, > has no onboard usb or camera. It doesn't support flash and has a locked > app environment. > > The cheapest kindle is 250. The cheapest ipad is $500. The cheapest > kindle has 3g. The cheapest ipad doesn't. > > So, kind of geared differently. > Sent via BlackBerry >
