Rise in E-reading apps on iPhone make fool of Steve Jobs (like that’s hard)

Remember when the Kindle came out and everyone stared at Apple… Apple remained silent.  Then the Nook debuted and everyone began glaring and begging the question “Ummm, you guys gonna work your magic on this?!”.

Of course you do.  But do you remember Steve Job’s reply?

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore… The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

This was Steve’s reasoning behind not getting apple involved in the E-book business, even though it’s still reported that a tablet style reader is being created behind-the-scenes.  So exactly how gratifying is it to watch the Style-nazi not only “supposedly” be dead wrong but actually have one of his own products make a fool out of him?  Pretty damn gratifying.

Gigaom is posting that the iPhone book apps have OUTDONE the games for a little over the month.  Hey, maybe Apple doesn’t need to build that tablet anyways?

Btw, Jobs… pwnt… by your own product… in the face… hard. (and btw, we still read, we  just wouldn’t know proper grammar if it had an accelerometer and slick LCD screen and jerked us in a back alley-way).

More at Gigaom – http://gigaom.com/2009/11/01/iphone-e-book-reader/

~ by ashyoungblood on 11/02/2009.