Well, Amazon seems to be trying to emulate the iPod''s user experience model, viz.: the device, the software (iTunes), and the iTunes Store triptych. Except: they eliminated the software by doing away with the need for an intermediate device (i.e., the PC/laptop) and enabled a direct link between the device and the online store.
Will this be sufficient? The history of tablet/book type devices has not been a happy one; perhaps, in retrospect, their downfall was their vendors didn't sell a whole experience, only a device. Apple (and let's admit it, Steve Jobs) was the first to figure out that people sought experiences, not cold, hard equipment - at least in the consumer space. The iPod's got something (carefully constructed, of course) that, so far at least, Kindle (and Amazon) doesn't: romance, sex appeal, etc. The market segment that the iPod targeted, at least initially, fell madly in love with the iPod. No doubt the interaction/interface design was the most important factor. This alone would have probably gotten the innovators and early adopters in the market; but romance and sex appeal by themselves cannot carry a product to massively dominant market position. This is where the Total User Experience (new TLA alert: TUE) really made a difference. I really like Amazon, but I look upon it as a utilitarian source of books and other stuff, the way I look upon my beat up old car. Not something I am dearly in love with, but something which works great and saves me a lot of money. Kindle is a nice device, but: Kindle, doesn't. I may be forced to eat my words just like the many naysayers of the iPod when it was introduced. Cheers, - murli n. | www.murli.com On 11/22/07, Prasad Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's going to be famous like the iPOD. > > For music it's iPOD, for books it's (going to be) Kindle. > > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
