ipad vs kindle: CAGE MATCH!

[rmd]

OKAY YOU OVERLY OPINIONATED INTERNET PEOPLE! CONVINCE ME! OR SOMETHING.

I need to choose a $SIGNIFICANT_MILESTONE gift for someone. iPad? or Kindle?

iPad has the advantage of doing much more - apps! widgets! other stuff!
Kindle has the advantage of not requiring a separate pay-by-the-month data plan for cell access. Plus more battery life.

thoughts?

I figure either an ipad and a small itunes store gift card (and possibly a small amazon gift card for ebooks), or a kindle and a larger amazon gift card.

Comments

Re: Just to be contrarian

[dfjdejulio.livejournal.com]

Not completely accurate anymore, *and* it only applies to apps in the app store. There's plenty of content in plenty of formats with no DRM or anything that one can consume just fine on the iPad.

Many of the videos on mine, I ripped from DVD myself. Much of the audio on mine, I ripped from CD myself. You can set iTunes up to autoconvert from FLAC to device-supported formats transparently as part of the sync process. DRM-free EPUB files work perfectly well in iBook and at least one competing reader application. And heck, *VLC* is on the device now.

It perhaps ain't as free as the most free Android handsets, the ones that are wide-open and that support sideloading. But it *is* more free than the *least* free (in terms of carrier/manufacturer lockdown) Android handsets.

And as for tablets, we'll have to see how that shakes out once Android tablets really start to show up in consumer hands, which hasn't happened yet.