It’s time once again for another edition of our long-running Faceoff Series, wherein we pit two similar or competing web services, gadgets, apps and more against each other in a head-to-head battle for supremacy amongst Mashable readers. This week it’s a war for best electronic book reading experience between two of the heaviest heavyweights: Amazon and Apple.
Last week we saw the iPad solidly trounce the netbook, and now with the forthcoming addition of iBooks support in iPhone OS 4.0 Apple takes a solid swing at Amazon’s Kindle eReader as well.
For now the Kindle retains arguably the greater reach, with the physical device as well as a seamless reading experience across PC, Mac, iPhone and BlackBerry. When iPhone OS 4.0 hits this summer with iBooks support, however, Apple’s eReader platform will see an effective extension by about 85 million units across iPhone and iPod touch owners.
But how does the actual iBooks experience stack up against the Kindle? That’s exactly what we want to find out from you, dear readers. Let us know in the poll below before Friday afternoon (2:30 PST to be exact) which eReader platform you think would win in a bar room brawl: Amazon’s, or Apple’s?
Who would win in a fight: Amazon Kindle or Apple iBooks?survey software
Faceoff Series: Overall Results
Week 1:
– Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
– WINNER: Firefox, 4600 votes (Chrome: 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)
Week 2:
– WINNER: Tumblr, 1809 votes (Posterous: 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)
Week 3:
– WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (Pandora: 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)
Week 4:
– WINNER: Facebook, 2484 votes (Twitter: 2061 votes, Tie: 588 votes)
Week 5:
– WINNER: WordPress, 2714 votes (Typepad: 267 votes, Tie: 357 votes)
Week 6:
– WINNER: Windows 7, 3632 votes (Snow Leopard: 3278 votes, Tie: 121 votes)
Week 7:
– TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop
– WINNER: TweetDeck, 3294 votes (Seesmic Desktop: 1055 votes, Tie: 260 votes)
Week 8:
– Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
– WINNER: Microsoft Office, 1365 votes (Google Docs: 994 votes, Tie: 315 votes)
Week 9:
– Apple iPhone vs. Google Android
– WINNER: Google Android, 3323 votes (Apple iPhone: 1494 votes, Tie: 228 votes)
Week 10:
– WINNER: Verizon, 1161 votes (AT&T: 538 votes, Tie: 118 votes)
Week 11:
– WINNER: Google, 2180 votes (Bing: 519 votes, Tie: 97 votes)
Week 12:
– iPod Touch/iPhone vs. Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP
– WINNER: iPod Touch/iPhone, 704 votes (Sony PSP: 639 votes, Nintendo DS: 482 votes, Tie: 108 votes)
Week 13:
– Digg vs. Reddit vs. StumbleUpon
– WINNER: Digg, 14,762 votes (Reddit: 11,466 votes, StumbleUpon: 2507 votes, Tie: 1032 votes)
Week 14:
– Old versus new Twitter retweets
– WINNER: Old style retweets, 1625 votes (New style retweets: 699 votes, Tie: 227 votes)
Week 15:
– WINNER: Gmail, 3684 votes (Outlook: 980 votes, Tie: 590 votes)
Week 16:
– WINNER: Hulu, 626 votes (Boxee: 591 votes, Tie: 106 votes)
Week 17:
– WINNER: Nexus One, 6743 votes (iPhone 3GS: 2818 votes, Tie: 592 votes)
Week 18:
– Foursquare vs. Yelp vs. Gowalla
– WINNER: Foursquare, 1182 votes, (Yelp: 661 votes, Gowalla: 509 votes, Tie: 143 votes)
Week 19:
– WINNER: GTalk, 2189 votes, (AIM: 1257 votes, FbChat: 511 votes, Tie: 203 votes)
Week 20:
– Music Ownership vs. Music Subscription
– WINNER: Ownership, 533 votes (Subscription: 299 votes, Tie: 237)
Week 21:
– WINNER: Plenty of Fish, 430 votes (Match.com: 334 votes, Tie: 187 votes)
Week 21:
– Google Buzz vs. Facebook Vs. Twitter
– WINNER: Facebook, 3353 votes (Twitter: 1828 votes, Google Buzz: 1298 votes, Tie: 651 votes)
Week 22:
– WINNER: HTML5, 3892 votes (Adobe Flash: 1779 votes, Tie: 660 votes)
Week 23:
– Project Natal vs. PlayStation Move
– WINNER: Project Natal, 1268 votes (PlayStation Move: 668 votes, None: I don’t like motion controllers: 170 votes, None: I prefer the Wii: 150 votes)
Week 24:
– WINNER: Chatroulette, 742 votes (Hot or Not: 281 votes, Tie: 99 votes)
Week 25:
– WINNER: iPad, 3098 votes (Netbook: 1969 votes, Tie: 605 votes)
Reviews: Bing, BlackBerry Rocks!, Boxee, Chrome, Digg, Facebook, Firefox, Foursquare, Gmail, Google, Google Buzz, Google Docs, Gowalla, Gtalk, Hulu, Pandora, Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitter, TypePad, Windows, WordPress, Yelp, aim, iPhone
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