{"id":47,"date":"2007-11-24T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T02:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/11\/24\/amazon-kindles-simple-power\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T02:06:28","slug":"amazon-kindles-simple-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/amazon-kindles-simple-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Kindle&#8217;s &#8220;simple power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t (yet) played with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2FASIN%2FB000FI73MA%2F&amp;tag=andrewpayne20-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a>, Amazon&#8217;s new book reader.  But it looks like they made a brilliant design decision:  instead of connecting to the Internet through a host PC, the Kindle includes built-in wireless network access through Sprint&#8217;s EV-DO network.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great example of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/11\/18\/software-design-please-give-me-simple-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">simple power<\/a>&#8221; that I wrote about earlier.   By eliminating the host PC, the designers removed an entire layer of complexity.  There&#8217;s no Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop software to install and manage.  Users don&#8217;t even need a PC, and there is no monthly account for wireless network access (charges are built into the cost of the device and content).<\/p>\n<p>With the simplicity, users get more power:  they can browse and purchase new content from anywhere, at any time.  This is a dramatic upgrade from the typical iPod download-n-sync experience.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests a design challenge:    is there some element of your software or system that you can totally eliminate, making things both simpler and more powerful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t (yet) played with Kindle, Amazon&#8217;s new book reader. But it looks like they made a brilliant design decision: instead of connecting to the Internet through a host PC, the Kindle includes built-in wireless network access through Sprint&#8217;s EV-DO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/amazon-kindles-simple-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}