You see all these new products coming out with their own SDKs, allowing their users to add functionality to their gadgets as they wish. It begs the question whether Kindle needs a SDK as well.
The upside for the Kindle is huge. The potential is there, and with a better adoption rate, Amazon Kindle can truly achieve legendary status (maybe not iPhone level but close to it.)
I do believe that Kindle in its current condition does not provide programmers with enough flexibility to add useful functionality to it. However, with an enhanced color Kindle 2.0, you could certainly expect Amazon to take advantage and release their own SDK. I guess we will have to wait and see on this.
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A kindle SDK would really make it into a incredible device.
Many of my problems with the kindle has to do with the software. You can’t sort the books how i would like to, the MP3 player is not useful in it’s current condition. The web browser could use some work (i bet opera could make a kick ass browser for the kindle).
Some PDA type operations would be great!
So far, Amazon appear uninterested in this.
If Amazon releases the SDK then may be the matured pdf support may become a reality. Kindle 2 and Kindle DX will do pdfs. But they treat pdf pages as images. You cannot zoom, navigate TOI etc.
The other app is word, power point support.