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Apple's Focus on Content and Possible eBook Pricing
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Yep, gonna stick with Engadget I think. 9to5mac seems to have suffered a heart attack
Whoop, here we go!
Naturally, there will be costs which we (and probably nobody else) haven't yet considered. As to what they will be - who knows, we'll have to wait and see!
Indeed, though I suspect it may be a three-tier setup - basic with DRM, basic with no DRM, premium with no DRM.
No doubt it can't be a straight comparison, it's definitely different - largely because a user simply cannot convert the physical option (the book) to the digital one in the same way that they can with a CD. Additionally, people like books, unlike a CD you actually spend your whole time using a book holding the thing, if you see what I mean.
We must also remember that whereas with music, carrying around a lot in your pocket is a big advantage, with books the whole model is different. People don't dip in and out of books, or make 'readlists' out of different chapters from different books, they generally read one then move onto the next.
Hopefully Apple have learned from their one-format-and-that's-it mistake of the past, and will give us at least two options from the get-go.
this is cooler than the ipad: natascha kampusch goes beatles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFMFJ9isJI
My opinion:
Cons:
Pros:
Overal I think its a nice device for students, or people whom need many of the iPhone functionalities, but already have a good working phone. Woud've died to buy one, but does not do what I expected it to do.
... starts waiting for iPad v2.
Cons:
- Data plan is outrageous! The promote HD media, and they cap their cheap data plan to 250 MB? Thats not even one episode of sopranos in regular quality.
- Were is that magical input technology?
- Expensive device: Again, I believe that they are promoting this device as a place were people can have all their media (music, books, movies) inside, and they charge 820 for 64 gigs?? Common. I thought we were reaching the Terrabyte era. Atleast make it a hundred gigs.
- Not a hudge difference between an iPhone: Besides the bigger screen (and the extra functionalities that having a bigger screen implies), I don't see something that I really coudn't do with an iPhone.
Pros:
- iWork looks very usable.
- Decent Battery life (expected)
- Nice screen (not sure about reflectivness).
Overal I think its a nice device for students, or people whom need many of the iPhone functionalities, but already have a good working phone. Woud've died to buy one, but does not do what I expected it to do.
... starts waiting for iPad v2.
Whatever - as you probably realise by now, the whole thing was BS - just as a lot of people said it was
