{"id":1546,"date":"2009-05-01T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2009-05-01T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T17:30:05","slug":"is-apple-ready-to-burn-amazons-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/01\/is-apple-ready-to-burn-amazons-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple Ready to Burn Amazon&#8217;s Kindle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1547\" title=\"apple_media_pad_mockup\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apple_media_pad_mockup-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"apple_media_pad_mockup\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apple_media_pad_mockup-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/apple_media_pad_mockup.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This image is floating around the internet along with rumors that <em>Apple<\/em> is ready to unveil a much larger version of its iPod Touch that might be called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/164006\/apple_iphone_mediapad_could_be_a_kindle_killer.html\"><em>MediaPad<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently, it has a 6-inch HD touchscreen and will have cellular wireless connectivity.\u00a0 So people are writing about this thing as a Kindle-killer.\u00a0 Apple is also rumored to be preparing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/2009\/04\/30\/apple-to-do-e-reader-app-iphone-30-os-doc-opens-up-possibility\/\">ebook reader application<\/a> that will allow book purchases through the iTunes store.<\/p>\n<p>I think this has been coming for a while and I am almost certain that Steve Jobs will implement the first serious major competition for Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is floating around the internet along with rumors that Apple is ready to unveil a much larger version of its iPod Touch that might be called MediaPad.\u00a0 Apparently, it has a 6-inch HD touchscreen and will have cellular wireless connectivity.\u00a0 So people are writing about this thing as a Kindle-killer.\u00a0 Apple is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,319,209],"tags":[224,320,324,222,325,323],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-technology","category-web","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-e-reader","tag-ebook","tag-ipod","tag-kindle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}