Yesterday I shared my thoughts about the Apple iPad. It’s the most-discussed business-slash-technology issue in years, and good or bad, bright future or dull, people are talking about it; on Twitter, the iPad was mentioned over a half-million times in the twenty-four hours after its announcement.
I believe the success of the iPad isn’t about its technological guts, nor even about whether its high sexiness quotient gets people to buy it; the iPad will sink or swim on the business relationships it creates or changes.
Suddenly struggling to maintain some voice, I present the Amazon Kindle. It’s the reigning delivered-paid-content champion, and many people with opinions about the iPad have pointed out that Apple is going after Amazon.com’s lunch with their new tablet. Apple even went so far as to demonstrate their new deal with The New York Times at the iPad introduction.
