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Ten Quick Reasons the Kindle Will Fail
November 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pmSource:CenterNetworks -
We’ve written about Meebo a bunch of times before including an interview with CEO Seth Sternberg. When Meebo launched their platform, I joked. Today, it’s me who has egg on the face. Mike and Kristen have the news about the first use of the platform — this time it’s games; casual games in fact. I’ve learned in a former life that casual games are one of the best (if not the best) ways to engage customers. For Meebo it increases the engagement time which allows for more marketing time. RadiusIM spoke last night about the engagement time and how high it is for IM services, gaming just raises it one more notch.
Check out this list of available games: AddictingGames’ Fratboy Unicycle Relay, Animal Puzzle, Artillery, Attack, Backgammon, Battle Pool, Blackjack, Checkers, Chess, Connect4, Go, Kongregate Racing, Match4, Music Man, Picture This!, Pirate War, Platform Racing, Reversi, Sheep Me, Sploder, Sudoku Wars, Tactics 100, Texas Hold ‘em, and World Travel Puzzle.
This comes on the heels of the Meebo announcement as the selected chat partner for Joost.
Perhaps we could create a holiday web tech blogger gaming battle royal with proceeds to charity. While I might not be on top of the TechMeme leaderboard, no one can take down my combo button action!
Source:CenterNetworks -
Here are ten quick reasons the Kindle
- It’s big and ugly - it’s no sleek iPhone
- I wasn’t invited to the launch press and blogger meeting nor is the CN feed included in the device day 1.
- $399 to have the privilege of then buying books to read on the device? Can I get a Fail Fail?
- Isn’t reading about the enjoyment of reading?
- So now I have to carry an iPod and a cell phone and a Kindle?
- Notice the large laptop bag in the demo video? That’s because this guy has to carry his laptop, his cell phone, his iPod and now his kindle.
- Be a big hit with the ladies when you whip out your Kindle. "Hey Baby, I read!"
- It’s the Homer Car
- Can it do images or video? If not, how does it deal with books that have images or blogs that have videos? Is it Lynx all over again?
- Who wants to pay for the Scoble feed? Only if it comes with the whiteboard sessions!
The one thing I do like about it is that it *may* change the pricing structure for content. I have said for a long time that there is no reason that blogs shouldn’t charge for their full RSS feeds. Is $2 a month fair for the massive, time-creation-consuming content provided on TechCrunch or Engadget? I think so. The issue of course is that as long as someone offers it free, everyone must. Think about the time and effort that goes into creating the content on a blog - same as a newspaper which you pay for and I would venture a guess that it’s more than a book which you pay many $$ for. Does a craftsman give away his woodworks for free? I think not.
Devices are becoming more and more multi-use, yet this feels like a step backward. And if it wasn’t created by Amazon, would anyone care?
This device might work for the very affluent crowd but it doesn’t have mainstream appeal. Compare it to the iPhone which everyone in every demographic wants. It could have been sexier.
