Comments on: Opinion:Study, iPad, DRM and Me

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:40:16 +0000

Not necessarily. Although the Kindle app is approved for the iPhone, there is no guarantee that it would be allowed by Apple on the iPad. In the past, Apple doesn’t allow applications that compete with it’s own business such as iTunes and Mail clients. Now the Kindle app may work in as upscaled iPhone app but various iPad testers have commented that the upscaling looks awful.

Given that the Kindle is direct competition to the proposed iBooks, I suspect that Kindle won’t be available for the iPad at launch. It’s possible that Apple MAY allow Kindle once the marketplace is better understood but I predict that Apple will ban an iPad version of the Kindle app.

By: foster2

foster2 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:17:41 +0000

why worry about the kindle books? theres an app for that so that you can read your kindle books on iphone. all iphone apps will run on ipad, hence, your books will be on the ipad. its all good…

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:50:22 +0000

Thanks Oliver. Appreciate the feedback. I expect to buy an iPad but am keeping an open mind. If something changes like “not allowed to look at books in web browser because Apple says so” then I might change my mind.

By: Oliver Gorwits

Oliver Gorwits — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:24:46 +0000

I totally agree, the very first thought that came to me as I saw the iPad announcement was that my Safari account, heavily used for Cisco Press titles, would be awesome on this device.

Some have commented about the LCD screen being hard on the eyes but I actually think this a positive, with colour being common in network diagrams. I also scan and jump around Safari titles quite a lot so the horsepower and proper browser are both necessary.

Good post, spot on.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:48:05 +0000

Just for fun: http://www.therawfeed.com/2010/01/ipad-goes-head-to-head-with-rock.html