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iPad Mini Event Said to Focus on iBooks
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iBooks looks nice, but unless you get the app to read books from Amazon, B&N, etc., I won't use it. I had a small library of Kindle books when the iPad came out. I don't want to start segmenting my library needlessly, so I have stuck with Kindle.
All of these manufacturers/publishers need to work this out. You see how sluggish the digital video market is because everything is layered with DRM and requires a certain app and platform to run. It's hardly the interoperable experience of buying digital music from anywhere and playing it anywhere.
I would also love to see textbook publishers get serious about digital and provide their books for reduced prices. I'm taking an online course for free, and there are three recommended texts. One is a $13 book that I bought. The other two are huge textbooks that aren't available digitally and cost more than $100 each. Surely these could be dropped in price a lot if they are available digitally, especially since they won't have resale value like actual books do.
All of these manufacturers/publishers need to work this out. You see how sluggish the digital video market is because everything is layered with DRM and requires a certain app and platform to run. It's hardly the interoperable experience of buying digital music from anywhere and playing it anywhere.
I would also love to see textbook publishers get serious about digital and provide their books for reduced prices. I'm taking an online course for free, and there are three recommended texts. One is a $13 book that I bought. The other two are huge textbooks that aren't available digitally and cost more than $100 each. Surely these could be dropped in price a lot if they are available digitally, especially since they won't have resale value like actual books do.
What about iPad mini and iBook2?
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We hope Books like this http://bit.ly/IbookIpad fits well in iPad Mini. This is the first Ibook2 wine catalogue ever made on that format*and will soon be in English and Spanish. Thanks.
Exactly.
IPod touch is 329 here... Even.
Safe money has to be 349 for 16gb iPad mini basic, no retina.
A Slim chance then we will have a 16gb iPad mini HD for 449
Putting them right between the cheapest iPad 9.7" and the new iPad.
You promised me many things that drunken night we shared a donna kebab and half a bottle of vodka & red bull as we gazed up into the stars. Remember how we laughed as the stars danced (admittedly we were off our nuts at the time on some of those e's your mate pilfered) and then you made some big big promises....... And then the earth moved (cue 70's porn music)...
And look at us now... You can't even remember any of it happening
let alone the promises you made... You just act like it was all just made up . It's like what I've written is somehow made up, even if I Promise it isn't...So forgive us our skepticism if we don't just take 'your promise' as anything other than the ramblings of a blaggard....
J/k. (Yes this is a joke people. I would never drink red-bull)
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A few users are talking about pricing at $299? Isn't this what the entry iPod touch is at?
I just don't understand what Apple are going to do? Any more than $299, will be too expensive.
Maybe that's why the new iPod line hasn't shipped yet? (Prices may be changed?) idk.
Thoughts?
I just don't understand what Apple are going to do? Any more than $299, will be too expensive.
Maybe that's why the new iPod line hasn't shipped yet? (Prices may be changed?) idk.
Thoughts?
No... the new iPod Touch starts at $299 and goes to $399
Apple still sells the old iPod Touch for $199
If the iPad Mini is real... it could become the entry-level iPad at $299.
So... it could be this:
iPod Touch line... $199 to $399
iPad line: $299 to $829
I doubt highly there will be cellular option, much like how the iPod Touch doesn't have cellular option.
Chances are based on product iD's found in iOS 6, a 16gb wifi only.
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If true, this is gonna be further evidence that Apple has lost the initiative, becoming just a me-too company under Cook.
A smaller iPad is as irrelevant as a 30-inch iPhone; there is absolutely no need for it, especially now that the iPhone 5 already has a 4-inch screen, and that every app has been conceived with the 9-inch screen size in mind.
A terrible move by Apple, in my view.
Baloney. There clearly IS a market for smaller tablets, as evidenced by the success of the Kindles and the Nexus 7. Many, many people on this forum would buy a smaller form factor over the current iPad.
And I guess you missed the discussion about how the Mini's screen is 7.85" precisely so current iPad apps can run on it without any tweaking.
wow, so they're literally throwing iPads at Kindles in their presentations now? things have gone downhill.
Isn't that a bit narrow-minded? People said that about the iPad and look where it is now. There are indications that many people favour a smaller iPad above the current size.
It might not be relevant to you (or for me, because I like the current size), but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant to others. Look at that Samsung Galaxy note cellphone...
I'm interested in your company's products. Is it manga? Is it in English? Could you provide link to said products via PM?