The Kindle Problem
As anyone who knows me should know, I love books and I love gadgets, both with an abandon. So when people make a gadget that is supposed to be the substitute for a book, I should be the perfect customer. In the same vein, if you make an eBook-reader-gadget-thingy, and I’m not salivating at the prospect to buy it, you have to be pretty darn stupid. It seems Jeff Bezos is. The Kindle is a monstrosity. It’s ugly as hell, looks like a toy, and has no attraction to me at all. Hell, the Sony Reader, which doesn’t play well with a Mac, seems a much better option (and if I prefer a not-really-for-Mac option, things ain’t great).
Would it be so damn hard to make the Kindle look at least somewhat usable/attractive? Who wants to pay a rather hefty sum of money for a rinky-dink device that looks like it’ll be dirty-looking straight out of the box and broadcast such a powerful nerd-aura that people will recoil when you whip it out?
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