The Counter-Intuitive Successes of the iPod and the Kindle

As I read the various recent articles about the success of the Amazon Kindle ebook reader like this one on ZDNet…

Amazon: “Kindle exceeded our most optimistic expectations”; beats Q1 estimates

…and recall my own whining about the Kindle’s high price (from my perspective), I reflect on my past commentary on another overpriced (again from my own perspective) late-to-the-game consumer media device: The Apple iPod. The Kindle wasn’t the first ebook reader and the iPod wasn’t the first MP3 music player.

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