Monday, November 19, 2007

What was Amazon smoking?


Look, we're usually strategic and analytical and all that, but just LOOK at Amazon's piece of junk. Really. What was Jeff Bezos thinking? Amazon's new Kindle book-reader mutation is a great case study in how mobile devices require the integration of software and hardware design, and how if you don't put the two together, you blow it. Consumers are getting sophisticated: We're used to Razrs and Coopers and iPhones and, yes, even Vista. We want our technology in shimmering glass, not gray button-bricks. Can't wait to curl up Sunday morning in bed with this lump of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Please.

2 comments:

darryl ohrt said...

We're not really used to Vista...

Ben Kunz said...

Embrace Vista. It's beautiful. And no, of course the aero interface is not a rip-off of OSX aqua ... that's pure coincidence.