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It is that season when everyone is smitten with Silk!! Not the first time though!! South India was in the same situation a couple of decades ago. They miss it so much that Bollywood is readying a movie to remind them of those Silken days again.
Bloggers are going over the top in praising the new Fire that rages across the clouds and threatens to change the world of computing for ever. That actually beats me!! The basics of computing, services, cloud always tell us that "shared" is always better. Ie. Standards driven and allows wider adoption with shared overheads! Thus in this milieu, this raging desire to christen the new Fire Kindled by the great Amazon beats me.
If it is truly going to be unique, then the Fire will rage only on its Cloud, and maybe be chastised as a flash in the cloud! That would be a business model so uniquely identified with the great growers of Apple. Having said that, they expanded their "cloud" to ensure that a huge variety of content can be posted and consumed. I wouldn't trade my iPod and iTunes for all the brilliant Podcasts and iTunesU content!! Will the Great River want me to trade in my existing devices to best leverage their store and services? I doubt it.
Bloggers calm down!
The Fire is here, the iPad is already a very dominant force (atleast fair to say with those with disposable income :-) ), and a long line of others will come along (and from different stables such as Windows, Android etc).
PS: this post was written on a Samsung Gingerbread device using an Apple wireless keyboard on a Google app! I'm lovin it!
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