Kindle -should I buy now ?

londonman81

photome wrote: »

A pointless post IMO.

they released what they had at the time and you chose to purchase, you could have waited for the update that you knew was coming.

Did I know it was coming? I don't remember saying that...

londonman81

RobTang wrote: »

Not really,
the time difference between each kindle release has been about a year.
Apple is about the same apart from the silly ipad 4 release.
Intel releases every 1-2 years depending on your pov.




Kindle touch release was 28 sep 2011, Kindle paperwhite was 1 oct 2012. 1 year.

Not the case - 28 Sep 2011 was the release date in the US only. The UK got in in April 2012. I remember this as I bought mine in Jan 2012 and saw that only the US had the touchscreen version - when I asked whether the UK would be getting it, I was told not for a while...which turned out to be only 4 months later....

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45066/amazon-kindle-touch-uk-release-date-set

The touchscreen I still don't see the point, I have had a sony ereader with a touchscreen but I still prefer the physical keys on my kindle keyboard.

I can't think of any product where it's preferable to have a keyboard where you have to move around by pressing buttons, versus being able to touch the buttons on screen....

My opinion is that they did not really want a backlight on the kindle but were pressured by nook glowlight and from conventional LCD tablets, to have something in the "I like to read in the dark" niche

Bedtime reading is hardly a 'niche', I know many people who read before they go to bed and don't want to disturb their partners by having the bedroom light on.

Having a light fitted into a product is hardly a novel idea.

RobTang

You can't base it off your own ability to buy it. your prev post imply they have never thought to add a feature rather then to actually create it.
Not to mention you could have always imported the touch back a year ago.

londonman81 wrote: »

I can't think of any product where it's preferable to have a keyboard where you have to move around by pressing buttons, versus being able to touch the buttons on screen....

The older kindles have physical forward and back buttons on both sides of the device. You know the most pressed buttons on a e-reader, exactly where you would hold the device.
The touch kindles have the same buttons but virtually on the touch screen, I never found the swipe action to be very good on the sony reader I had.

londonman81 wrote: »

Bedtime reading is hardly a 'niche', I know many people who read before they go to bed and don't want to disturb their partners by having the bedroom light on.

Having a light fitted into a product is hardly a novel idea.

The word niche does not imply size, merely it is a specific subset of a given market. The set of people who read in perfectly well lit conditions can sill be called a niche.

prowla

londonman81 wrote: »

Again, see my last post. I'm not talking about fine changes, and I'm talking about things which should have been in there from v1.

I wonder how people would have responded to an iPhone v1 withno touchscreen and no light .... Then for a version with a touchscreen a few months later and then one with light a few months after that....

My point is that in thisday and age , I'm pretty sure the greats brains of cutting edge technology can incorporate a touchscreen and a light from the first version....

Yes I do appreciate what you are saying, but it's also about getting the product to market or losing the market.

Every item of technology is going to be superseded inside a year, or it'll become obsolete anyway.

Of course PCs are built to be upgradeable, so they can cope with advances more readily, but the issue with self-contained appliances is that they are what they are.

There's always going to be a new feature that could be included, an a question as to whether a given component is fit for purpose at the given point in time in the design lifecycle, and a question of the product's release budget; I'm not so sure that leaving essential features out is quite as contrived as all that.

grizzly1911

prowla wrote: »

I'm not so sure that leaving essential features out is quite as contrived as all that.

I am sure they will have a road map and make choices as to how they maximise their return by staging releases.

I don't doubt that some version releases will be technology related e.g. certain components reaching end of life.

grizzly1911

prowla wrote: »

I'm not so sure that leaving essential features out is quite as contrived as all that.

I am sure they will have a road map and make choices as to how they maximise their return by staging releases.

I don't doubt that some version releases will be technology related e.g. certain components reaching end of life but that would be over a longer time frame.

prowla

I do, however, think that Apple's pricing of the memory sizes of iDoojammywotsits is extremely contrived.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

If it aint' broke don't fix it.
I would prefer a Kindle Paperwhite 3G but am hanging on until the day my Keyboard goes to the Kindles in the sky.
Best strategy.
Amazon are always marketing, every time I visit therure are multiple marketings addressed to me including the daily emails.
I would just hold out till your kindle snuffs it and then off to get a new one. Lets hope the old one lasts a nice long time!

neilwoods

Just out of curiosity, where is the request for actual technical help by the OP within this useless thread.

Shouldn't this useless thread be moved to discussion thread, as that is all this is

-TangleFoot-

neilwoods wrote: »

Just out of curiosity...

londonman81 wrote: »

...is it now safe to buy a kindle with these latest features or does anyone think they'll bring out another new version with one more basic improvement which should have been done a year ago?

• Latest generation: 5th, announced September 2012
• Time between generations: ~12-18 months.