[ericd]

Besides reading-related apps, what types of apps is the Kindle more suited to over, say the iPhone/iPad/any other smart phone? From what I've seen, the refresh rate seems to limit its usefulness, such that any non-reading centric app would be at best a poor cousin of apps on those other devices.

Am I missing an elephant in the room?

[andymism]

One of the things I'll be excited to see (or develop, if I'm fast enough) would be a social note taking app integrated into the reader, shared among a book club for example.

There are plenty of constraints (slow screen refresh, not ideal user interaction) but who knows, some good new ideas might be born to work around them.

[jamesbritt]

Some of my initial excitement was dampened when I saw the specs. Not that there aren't interesting things to be done, but full-blown multimedia seems unlikely.

[waterlesscloud]

You could probably do a MYST-like. Beyond that, probably not a lot of multimedia.

[Tichy]

Maybe one could create a really cool reading app.

[sliverstorm]

An example just popped into my head- something like google maps (perhaps even google maps itself) could work extremely well (with the large screen) if you make route finding, zoom, etc, seamless enough you don't need to drag the map around.

(and by seamless what I really meant was 'right on the first try')