The Amazon Kindle Fire Is A Guaranteed Success. Apple Knows Why.

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15 points·chrisleydon··7 comments

Well, even John Gruber is giving praises to a non-Apple device. That must mean something.

I think pretty much everyone on HN had already managed to figure this out, no? Even those who didn't must have read 100s of comments making this point over the past hours, or days, or even months.

One of the links ("just a rebadged BlackBerry Playbook" http://gdgt.com/discuss/the-amazon-tablet-will-look-like-a-p... ) has some purported scuttlebutt about development, tailing off with:

Although Amazon did refresh the ID of their PlayBook derivative, I'm told that this first tablet of theirs is "supposed to be pretty poor" and is a "stopgap" in order to get a tablet out the door for the 2011 holiday season

(P.S. to OP: please do not post URL shortener links.)

What's with the font on this site? Spidery and blurry for me in Chrome even at 1920x1200. http://itsabigthing.com/wp-content/themes/itsabigthing/font/...

I really hope this isn't where html5 fonts are headed

It's an awful mess for me in Firefox as well. The letters in the body-text all seem to have a different baseline, and some horizontals are 2px while most are 1px.

Frankly, attempting to read it just makes me feel tipsy.

>I really hope this isn't where html5 fonts are headed

Set your browser to override any website with your own font choices. I did sometime back when that eye-rape sunken font styling started showing up too often for my tastes and will never go back. My style on everything means one less thing to bother with when browsing the web, even websites where I didn't have a problem with the font are improved because they're now in my preferred for reading.

Apologies, I'll pass on your feedback to the site's designer. Ir's in need of an overhaul anyway.

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