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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Apple's Big Blunder: Losing the E-Book Market

Amazon's new Kindle for iPhone application shipped this week. The software lets you read any of Amazon's 240,000 Kindle books on an iPhone much like you would on an over-priced Amazon Kindle. Unfortunately, the launch exposes Apple's biggest blunder since the Apple Newton: They forgot to dominate the e-book market. And I'm not alone in the opinion that Apple screwed this up. Gartner analyst Van Baker agrees.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Uh. if Gartner agrees with you, you're either stating the obvious six months late or just plain wrong. ;)

Apple's still got time... they weren't first to the party with an MP3 player or a smartphone, and they've done pretty well in those businesses.

Friday, March 06, 2009 7:59:00 PM  

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