Now that both the Kindle and the iPhone are out, it’s interesting to look at the very similar business strategy behind the two products.
I think most of the E-Ink ebook readers in the market are doomed to failure. They don’t do enough, and what they do, they do poorly. The world gave up [...]

I’ve been pondering the ebook situation with respect to the upcoming (Friday) launch of the iPhone App Store. One of the problems hardware devices like the Sony Reader and the Kindle have to contend with is competition with other reading platforms like the paperback book, or the library book. It’s hard to spend $300 on [...]

There’s a wonderful piece at Mobile Opportunity that analyzes the slow demise of the hand-tuned mobile application for dedicated stacks.  The punch is in the last paragraph, and there are analogues here between mobile carriers and all other last-gen sectors that market and provide information - publishers, libraries, newspapers.
In the mobile world, what have we [...]