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No product has been in my life longer and more persistently than the iconic yellow of Eastman Kodak. On the shelf above my desk at home, there is a photographic tableau of photography books, odd, old cameras and light meters and a long thin Kodak box containing a vintage process thermometer from the 1970s. Most of my oldest black and white contact prints and large format negatives, are stored in 1976-vintage Kodak 250 sheet 8x10 and 11x14 Polycontrast N surface paper boxes. The boxes are so old that they are reinforced and basically held together with multiple layers of aging adhesive tape. Those boxes full of contact prints and a Patterson three ring notebook filled with glassine sleeves of 35mm negatives are my first archive

This is the Fast Company article suggesting that infants are prefer Apple products, thereby setting up a new generation of built in Apple fanboys and girls.

Fortunately, 52 Tiger adds some important insight to the hypothesis:

It’s an interesting observation, but not indicative of an innate pre-disposition towards using Apple’s products. Around the age of 18 months, a child’s understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship is maturing. They begin to combine simple actions to cause things to happen or change the way they interact with objects and people in order to see how it changes the outcome.

I was asked over lunch at a recent conference, what I thought was going to be the next big trend. I took out my iPad and opened up Flipboard and said, "all things mobile and the personalization and socialization of content." Flipboard may be the single best reason to own an iPad.

So, I can understand why CNN acquired Zite, I'm just not sure it's for the right reasons.

I was reading Shawn Blanc tonight and his speculation on the unannounced Kindle tablet:

If Amazon is going to make an inexpensive device that is backed by their brand and ecosystem, then why not make a better Kindle rather than a crappy tablet? Is the Kindle market saturated? Are they trying to increase the perceived value of the Kindle by making a secondary, more expensive device?

I think Sean's on track with most of his speculation and guesswork. I agree that there probably is a market for a better Kindle, rather than some sort of featured-creeped faux tablet. I bought a Kindle a few months ago and as a reading device, it's a much better experience in most environment's than the iPad. That said, I just don't see how anyone can make a 'better' or similarly featured iPad-like device for less money than Apple. The economies of scale seem to heavily weighted to Apple's advantage.

From today's Wall Street Journal on How to Kill H-P in a Year:

"It has been a year since H-P fired Mr. Hurd. Jack Kevorkian couldn't have devised a better plan for euthanizing a company. But like the good doctor used to say: "Dying is not a crime."