so the answer is to buy an apple?
His answer is to bet on the companies that will THRIVE in the long term -— THE SURE WINNERS.
Here’s his game plan ( I’ll let you read the rest of the article for the details as to why ):
* BUY APPLE’S HARDWARE Apple’s phones, tablets and PCs are the best-designed and best-made computers on the market.
* USE GOOGLE’S SERVICES Your phone and tablet should carry Apple’s logo, but almost everything I do with them is routed through the search company’s servers.
* BUY MEDIA FROM AMAZON
* BET ON CONNECTORS In our multidevice world, Amazon’s media store functions as what I like to call a “connector” — it bridges the chasm between otherwise foreign technologies.
Also, Notice the one company that is out of his picture -— MICROSOFT.
so the answer is to buy an apple?
My 8080 still works.
I have the Kindle app on my iPad and my iPhone. It synchs so I can read whatever I’m reading anywhere I go. It advances to wherever you last read. Great for books you read from cover to cover. Not as good for reference books. My beef with Kindle is that I have Amazon Prime but their free lending library will only work on the actual piece of hardware. I’ve actually considered buying an actual Kindle to access it.
The good answer is to only buy stuff that let’s you actually OWN what you put on it. The failure of Nook is only really a problem if they remote delete your stuff (which Amazon has done when they lost rights to stuff, don’t know if Nook has). If they don’t remote delete all it means is that you won’t be able to get new stuff for it, a minor nuisance at best.
Which is of course one of the big reasons I’m still a physical media guy, you always own that.