{"id":619,"date":"2011-09-28T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2011\/09\/28\/sure-hope-this-very-90s-control-the-content-and-the-medium-tendency-see-also\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:37:27","slug":"dan-gillmor-on-the-new-amazon-kindle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/dan-gillmor-on-the-new-amazon-kindle-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gillmor on the new Amazon Kindle Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure hope this very 90’s control-the-content-and–the-medium tendency (see also Apple, Facebook et al.) is proven wrong by users keeping their priorities straight – freedom, choice and ownership first.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Dan Gillmor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

My Guardian column this week is about (you guessed it) the Amazon Kindle Fire. It’s a smart first entry in the tablet market for Amazon, but I’m sorry to see the company giving into its own control-freak impulses by creating such a sideways version of Android. I’m not planning to buy one, for a number of reasons, and hope it’ll be swiflly jailbroken.<\/p>\n

Also, as you’ll see, one of the losers in today’s announcements is likely to be Barnes & Noble, which I believe blew a huge opportunity to lock up the bargain-price Android tablet business when it, too, locked down its Nook Color. A huge mistake in the long run, and a lot of great work by a crack development team largely wasted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kindle Fire’s challenge to Apple and Google<\/a>
\nDan Gillmor: Amazon’s smaller, cheaper tablet device is an astute product \u2013 designed to hold market share against others’ software and apps<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n

Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure hope this very 90’s control-the-content-and–the-medium tendency (see also Apple, Facebook et al.) is proven wrong by users keeping their priorities straight – freedom, choice and ownership first. Reshared post from +Dan Gillmor My Guardian column this week is about (you guessed it) the Amazon Kindle Fire. It’s a smart first entry in the tablet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[17,61,70],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r","tag-amazon","tag-google","tag-kindle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-9Z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}