Whoever designed this thing has at the very least shown that they can finish and ship a complex product; which is more valuable than anything Scoble has done.
I doubt that Amazon will fire anyone from the Kindle team, and quite frankly they shouldn't, this is a first generation product that is still trying to find it's market. This is the portable reader/personal slate equivalent of the TRS-80. It's ugly and some of it's features are a pain in the ass, and the only way to find out what works and what doesn't is to throw it out there and see what people complain about.
Which I guess is one of Scoble's strengths.
I suspect the Kindle team think their product could have benefited from another year of development and that crucial features were cut from the schedule and that the BOM was more costly than they thought, and I'm interested in seeing what version two looks like.
I doubt that Amazon will fire anyone from the Kindle team, and quite frankly they shouldn't, this is a first generation product that is still trying to find it's market. This is the portable reader/personal slate equivalent of the TRS-80. It's ugly and some of it's features are a pain in the ass, and the only way to find out what works and what doesn't is to throw it out there and see what people complain about.
Which I guess is one of Scoble's strengths.
I suspect the Kindle team think their product could have benefited from another year of development and that crucial features were cut from the schedule and that the BOM was more costly than they thought, and I'm interested in seeing what version two looks like.