Kindle is Software + Services

 

Admittedly with some hardware there too but even Jeff Bezos agrees with the notion of S+S in a Newsweek interview

The Kindle's real breakthrough springs from a feature that its predecessors never offered: wireless connectivity, via a system called Whispernet. (It's based on the EVDO broadband service offered by cell-phone carriers, allowing it to work anywhere, not just Wi-Fi hotspots.) As a result, says Bezos, "This isn't a device, it's a service."

I haven't seen it yet and hear great things already but imagine the Kindle with Microsoft's SeaDragon technology embedded. Maybe it already has something like this but seeing the Blaise demo with Dickens' books made me think it's a match made in heaven. Maybe not though given the ambition to get books down to the device in ~1m and the size of some of the SeaDragon collections I have.

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• Anonymous
  November 18, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 22, 2007
  It's funny working in an industry where if you are not going at 50,000 miles an hour you are considered