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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yes book apps are available on iphone, but for how much longer?  There is no reason to believe that they will automatically be available on the iPad. |
There's a lot more reason to believe they will than to invent conspiracy theories that say they won't. And EVEN if they are not, it will be trivial to convert my ebooks from other sources into epub format for use on Apple's book app.
I realize this is a mobile reading forum and so books are top of the agenda. But books are not top of my reasons for getting an iPad. I like reading books on my iPhone and will most likely continue to. Magazines, on the other hand -- the larger screen will be much better for -- and Apple has touted the newspapers and magazines coming to the iPad.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
It's a brand new playing field and Apple has already crippled it in many significant ways. We will not know for sure what apps and controlled by whom will be available for it.
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So Apple takes off some smut and refuses apps that violate AT&T's usage policies or duplicates functionality. That does not translate into anything more than what it is. I've been happily living with Apple's "walled garden" with my iPhone and my kids with the iPod touch. It is our very positive experiences with those devices that lead me to be an early adopter of the iPad. The iPad is not NEW, it's merely larger.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yes many newspapers are available even for free via calibre and straight to my Sony or Kindle or computer (and tablet if I should buy one)
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I love Calibre. Just started using it only recently and had no idea about the cool news source to ebook conversions it had built in. However, I actually like the format of magazines and newspapers over straight text. But there is Calibre to epub to the Apple book reader as one of the many content options.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
I've never seen so many people so will to believe the hype and just follow along without even any real specs of formats, drm, restrictions, etc. I can only standby and give notice. If you want to race ahead, be my guest.
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I've been using an iPhone OS device for a couple years now. As many people have said in an attempt to denigrate the iPad "it's just a large iPod Touch". Yeah - that's a DESIRABLE thing in my book because my family and I like our iPod Touches.
You aren't "giving notice" you are attempting to spread FUD. At worst -- if all your conspiracy theories and FUD became true -- I'd have to spend a tiny bit of energy stripping off the DRM of my ebooks and converting them to ePub.
How is this different than the Kindle, the Nook or the Sony readers? None of them respect the DRM of anybody but their own.
Apple had working product in the hands of the press on it's grand announcement day. That's far more than anyone's gotten from ANY of the "iPad Killers". Apple's videos show the iPad in use. Adoble/HP's video is filled with fast cuts such that you have no idea how it really performs.
The kindle has been out for awhile now -- and I bet STILL -- most people who buy one have never seen one. I've yet to see a kindle in the wild. I just last week got to see a Nook at a B&N store.
Apple took over the mp3 market and is now even the number one seller of music. Apple took over 20% of the smartphone market and sent all the other manufacturers scrambling to respond to the iPhone. Apple took the phone part out of the iphone and had a mega hit consumer product with the iPod Touch. Together Apple has sold over 70+ million iPhone OS devices.
And now Apple is taking that proven market rocking combo into a new arena complete with major support and partnership from 5 of the top 6 publishing companies and vaunted newspapers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
That's not hype. That's reaping the rewards of past excellence.
Lee