{"id":27057,"date":"2019-10-25T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27057"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:27:39","slug":"the-kindle-is-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/25\/the-kindle-is-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle Is Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Frommer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Amazon’s approach to the Kindle product remains befuddling. Talk about entering a market, quickly achieving dominance, and then coasting with feet up for more than a decade — random, bizarre updates and bracingly mediocre software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But over the years I’ve accumulated all of these other reading items that are simply not available on the Kindle, like newsletters and subscription-only websites (newspapers and others) with their own custom iOS reader apps. First thing in the morning I am reading on my iPad, using those apps to get up to date on the stuff I’m interested in.<\/p>\n

The Kindle, meanwhile, is the land that that app revolution forgot. If I want to read a newspaper on the Kindle, I can—but there’s only a daily delivery of static newspaper text, so if something happens after the issue is delivered, I will have to wait a day to see it. I can channel newsletters to my Kindle, but only if I use an email gateway or a third-party forwarding service, and the experience is poor to say the least. I can send articles from webpages to Instapaper and get them on my Kindle, but the reading experience is not particularly great. And as for personalized websites like The Athletic? Forget it.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Even support for library borrowing is hidden, because Amazon really wants you to buy books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I still like the Kindle, but it feels like it’s still far from reaching its potential. And it’s shocking when you compare the progress Apple’s made with iPhone in the same amount of time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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