iPad, iPhone, and iOS vs. Kindle: It’s the Media Platform War

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It’s Tuesday, October 4th at 1pm EST and the media is all in a tither about the upcoming announcements from Apple. Will it be the iPhone 4S? The iPhone 5? Regardless, they are missing the bigger picture of how the latest devices from Apple are really about battling for control of personal media.

First, let me say that Kindle is not a device. It’s a software platform. It provides cloud-based storage, in-browser applications for accessing and consuming media (both books and a...