Comments on: Why Apple’s iPad is shaking things up with Amazon and Google http://activitypress.com/2010/02/11/why-apples-ipad-is-shaking-things-up-with-amazon-and-google/ Martin Taylor on ebooks and media from a Downunder perspective Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: A three horse race to rule over the global distribution of digital content … Apple in front by a nose. @ The Paepae http://activitypress.com/2010/02/11/why-apples-ipad-is-shaking-things-up-with-amazon-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-10820 A three horse race to rule over the global distribution of digital content … Apple in front by a nose. @ The Paepae Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:19:04 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=865#comment-10820 [...] Martin Taylor’s e-report — digital publishing downunder When Apple launched its long-rumoured iPad tablet computer late [...] [...] Martin Taylor’s e-report — digital publishing downunder When Apple launched its long-rumoured iPad tablet computer late [...]

]]> By: Mauricio Longo http://activitypress.com/2010/02/11/why-apples-ipad-is-shaking-things-up-with-amazon-and-google/comment-page-1/#comment-10805 Mauricio Longo Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:29:34 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=865#comment-10805 Apple is the company that stands to win more in all of this as it's sales of devices are highly profitable, regardless of the content that is sold. The iTunes store doesn't sell music in Brazil, up to this day an age, however the stores are full of iPods and they sell like hot cakes. Google made a poor choice in trying to be follow in Microsoft's footsteps and provide a software that will run on whatever device people want to run it. This leads to severe fragmentation of the market as what works on one device won't work on another. Amazon, while having gotten off to a good start with the Kindle, has an incredibly difficult uphill battle if it means to try to counter the iPad with a device of its own. Apple is the company that stands to win more in all of this as it’s sales of devices are highly profitable, regardless of the content that is sold.

The iTunes store doesn’t sell music in Brazil, up to this day an age, however the stores are full of iPods and they sell like hot cakes.

Google made a poor choice in trying to be follow in Microsoft’s footsteps and provide a software that will run on whatever device people want to run it. This leads to severe fragmentation of the market as what works on one device won’t work on another.

Amazon, while having gotten off to a good start with the Kindle, has an incredibly difficult uphill battle if it means to try to counter the iPad with a device of its own.

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