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		<ownerName>Dave Winer (Larry King)</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:08:58 GMT" text="I wonder about the Kindle">
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:09:01 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/04/02/kindle.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;336&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named kindle.jpg&quot;&gt;In the background of all the hype about the iPad is the question about the future of &lt;a href=&quot;http://amazon.com/kindle&quot;&gt;Amazon's Kindle&lt;/a&gt;. But I wonder how much Amazon really cares about it. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:09:53 GMT" text="A few thoughts."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:10:02 GMT" text="1. I own a Kindle, but I have no idea where it is. I've read a few books on it, marveled at my ability to carry a small library with me as I traveled, and then reverted to carrying a book. But I expect at some point someone will make a device that works better and I will stop carrying physical books. Maybe. But I still go to the movies, even though I can watch movies on my netbook. Who knows. Regardless, sorry, but I don't like the Kindle enough to travel with it."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:12:07 GMT" text="2. Isn't Amazon making their money selling books? The Kindle sure looks like a loss-leader to me."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:12:31 GMT" text="3. Doesn't Amazon's software run on the iPhone? Doesn't it seem likely that they will port it to the iPad? I don't doubt that Amazon would choose to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; sacrifice their healthy business selling books to protect their healthy business selling hardware, but what about Apple? Given that Apple has &lt;a href=&quot;http://almerica.blogspot.com/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html&quot;&gt;rejected podcatchers&lt;/a&gt; because they conflict with functionality built into the iPhone -- maybe Apple won't be so open-minded about Amazon porting their software to iPad? Maybe they want to be the exclusive distributor of books for the iPad?"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:14:08 GMT" text="4. Amazon is a funny company too -- their EC2 and S3 businesses must generate a lot of money and don't seem to have anything with being a store. So maybe Amazon has a reason to want to be in the Kindle business? With Amazon there's always a bit of mystery as to why they're doing what they do."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:14:55 GMT" text="It's just not as simple as some of the analysts seem to think."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:15:10 GMT" text="But I wouldn't bet against Amazon coming up with a new Kindle that's competitive with Apple's iPad. And I wouldn't bet against Apple being a major bottleneck and trying to keep competitors like Amazon off their platform."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:34:23 GMT" text="PS: I continue to hold Apple stock, the only tech company I am currently invested in. As I hope you can see, it does not in any way color my analysis. Probably should buy some Amazon too. I think both companies are great investments, even if I don't always like what they do to the ecosystem. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:57:17 GMT" text="Update: See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pcworld.com/article/193242/apple_ipads_ibooks_vs_amazons_kindle.html&quot;&gt;PC World's comparison&lt;/a&gt; of books on iPad vs Kindle."></outline>
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