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October 03, 2008
iPhone Beats Kindle in E-Reader Popularity Contest
Apple has gone and done it: its popular iPhone has surpassed the Amazon Kindle in popularity - as a book reader.
Since the launch of the iPhone App Store in July, a book-reader application called Stanza has accumulated 395,000 downloads, and the app continues to be installed on 5,000 iPhones a day, according to a Forbes story. By way of comparison, Citigroup estimates Amazon will sell about 380,000 Kindle e-book readers in 2008.
Who would've ever thought that people would prefer reading on a versatile, sleekly designed handset with a colorful touch screen that they carry around everywhere, as opposed to a hideous, bulky device sporting plastic keys and a dull gray-on-gray e-ink display?
Posted by ipodworld at October 3, 2008 09:45 AM