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At an very Apple-Esque high on security and no leaked answers, Apple unveiled in January, the worst kept secret in most technology circles. After a week after the Apple event industry experts said it would be the demise of existing electronic book readers, including Amazon's Kindle. Luckily, Jeff Bezos and co. had a better idea. Instead of attempting to show the world why their Kindle was better, which in some ways it still is Wholesale Hats , they decided to embrace the iPad. Amazon chose to not only jump on the iPad bandwagon, but also to be ready for the explosion scheduled to happen on April 3rd, by introducing an iPad version of their Kindle app.
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