marc:
Screen: As my geeky friend Chris Fox just pointed out to me, the Kindle’s screen has more pixels per inch (167 ppi) than the iPad (132 ppi). The Kindle’s lack of backlighting, lower screen reflectivity, and higher ppi will likely make for a better long-form textual reading experience than the iPad.He makes a whole slew of points, buries this one in the middle and doesn’t even say the one and only word you need when comparing the Kindle to the iPad: eInk.
What the almighty hell people. Does no one understand the remarkable difference between eInk and traditional LCDs?!
Yes, I work at Apple and yes, I’ve known of the ‘iPad’ for a quite a while. Yet I still went out and happily plunked down nearly $400 of my hard-earned money on a Kindle. And I’m still happy - enthralled, overjoyed - with it, for one very good and very specific reason: I can read for hours and hours without so much as an inkling of eye strain or headache.
To this day, when I show the Kindle to people - even brilliant engineers at this brilliant company - they make sarcastic remarks about my having wasted money on something that could easily be replaced by a product we’re right around the corner from unleashing on the world.
No. It could not. Read, learn, and please: stop equating the two technologies!
