You can tell right away that the Kindle is neither pretty nor uncontroversial, but here’s a guess at what would have happened if it was designed by Apple.
It would:
- …have style.
- …come in five different colors, one randomly more expensive than the others.
- …switch to landscape mode and zoom to page width automatically when rotated.
- …use “EDGE”:Wikipedia:Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution instead of EV-DO because, you know, battery life would be an issue.
- …have been “jailbroken” already to let an infinitesimally minuscule percentage of teenage pundits read non-“DRMed”:Wikipedia:Digital_rights_management manga on it. Or something.