New Kindles!
- September 28th, 2011
- Posted in Autobiography . General Nerdery
- By AMB
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As many of my readers know, my day job is as an engineer on Amazon’s Kindle team. So it’s with great pride and a little bit of bragging that I direct your attention to the new lineup of Kindles that were announced earlier today. I am and always will be a huge fan of the Kindle, and I’m really excited about the new devices.
Especially exciting, though, is the new Kindle Fire. Now for a technophile, I’m usually not in the earlier adopter part of the curve, but this is one gadget for which I’m definitely jumping in the preorder line.
A few of my favorite little features:
- Amazon Silk = CRAZY SEXY
- Free month of Prime to get people hooked on AVOD!
- Whispersync for video! Brilliant idea.
- Easy integration of my Amazon .mp3, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Kindle library all on one device.
Awesome stuff. Nov. 15th can’t come fast enough.
Working at Amazon has been, in many ways, a humbling experience. And working on the Kindle team has shown me just how much hard work it takes by tons of brilliant people to ship an awesome product like this. I’m very proud to be working on such awesome products, and I just wanted to say good job and congratulations to the rest of the Kindle group.
I’m a little startled to see you stoked on Amazon Silk. You always came off as really concerned about privacy and that whole concept, while brilliantly efficient, does leave you open to a rather disturbing potential lack of privacy. Out of curiosity, does inside knowledge of the technology, working for the company or something else entirely prompt this?
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To be honest, I don’t have any privacy concerns largely due to my trust in Amazon. This is, in turn, due in large part to the fact that I’ve totally drunk the Amazon Koolaid. I have no insider knowledge with regards to the technology (Amazon is almost as secretive inside the company as it is to outsiders), but Amazon has a genuine mission to do right by their customers. We’re almost cultishly obsessed with customer service and with doing the best thing for our users.
So I trust that Amazon won’t be evil with the data it collects.
As always, typical disclaimers apply. These are my views and mine alone, not those of the company etc. etc.
Randomly happened across your blog, but since you’re part of the reason the Kindle exists, then I guess I’m a fangirl. But please, please, when can we get the ability to sort collections on the cloud so we don’t have to re-sort everything on all devices?
Hi! Welcome to the blog and thanks for reading.
I’m really happy to hear you like the Kindle. It’s a great product and I love working on it.
Unfortunately, I can’t comment on Kindle features like collections management.
However, we on the Kindle team genuinely love getting feedback, and take it very seriously. Please email us at kindle-feedback@amazon.com and let us know what features you’d like to see on the Kindle.