“Here endeth the lesson.” —Jim Malone, “The Untouchables”
There is a great moment in the movie “The Untouchables,” when street-smart cop Jim Malone (played by Sean Connery) explains to federal agent Elliot Ness (played by Kevin Costner) the laws of the urban jungle that was 1920s Chicago, culminating his sermon by saying, “Here endeth the lesson.”
In his own way, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos delivered a similar message today about the laws of the post-PC jungle when he unveiled the next generation of all things Kindle. In doing so, he accomplished two things.
One, he firmly anchored the precept that other than Apple, Amazon is the elephant in the room when it comes to tablet and media devices, aka the post-PC universe.
After all, there is no company out there (other than Apple) that can so seamlessly combine ecommerce, digital media, publishing, cloud computing and hardware know-how — and do so at wafer-thin margins.
Read the full post at GigaOM by clicking HERE.
Related:
- Amazon's "Prime" challenger to the iPad (O'Reilly)
- You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing
- Built-to-Thrive: The Standard Bearers: Apple, Google, Amazon
- Existential Threats: Google v. Apple v. Amazon - who fares best?
