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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But the thing is, this so called tablet is not going to be an industry killer. It won't have good enough battery life. Would it last 8 hours? Not up to, but a full 8 hours? Apple products tend to have poor battery life (for the battery powered devices). So even if this went from rumor to real, it's still out of the running (IMHO).
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It's not so much the device itself that might make some publishers panic enough that they actually do something sensible about ebooks, its the combination of a device that has to look more appealing than a kindle and itunes that has them worrying because they have already seen the influence amazon has had so far even without launching outside the states.
Hopefully if anything comes of this, they will accidentally do something about the issues that most annoy their current customers such as drm, pricing and regional restrictions, but the odds are they will either do nothing or only stuff to protect themselves.