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Nov 27, 2011 / 6:36pm

Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos

I mean, imagine what it would be like to start off as an incredibly smart person, arguably a first-class genius, and then somehow wind up in a situation where you have a general’s view of the industry battlefield for ten years. Not only do you have more time than anyone else, and access to more information than anyone else, you also have this long-term eagle-eye perspective that only a handful of people in the world enjoy.

In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.

Steve Yegge strikes back. In the aftermath of his unfortunate rant, this time he paints much more flattering picture of Jeff Bezos.

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Nov 6, 2011 / 12:51pm

Apple and the Kindle (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

The Amazon Kindle is full of all sorts of amazing, delightful touches — the sort of thing you’d expect from an Apple product. For example, when you first take your Kindle out of its (gorgeous!) box, it boots right up knowing your name and logged into your account. This is actually out-Apple-ing Apple: it’s possible because Amazon not only controls the hardware and the software, but the entire distribution channel; they know exactly who is going to get each Kindle.
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Amazon is getting close to Apple's level of user experience, sometimes even exceeding them. But it's not quite there yet in some areas.

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