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alefor · 08-13-2010, 02:33 AM

The key to everything remains CONTENT. And the Adam (and Kno) if they ever exist will die quickly without easy access to the content that people want. I believe that this is the success of the iProducts. As long as you are willing to buy into the Apple ecosystem thru iTunes, you can have crazy amounts of content, easily (music, TV shows, movies, Podcasts, etc). Thus the success. Of course, they have never really been marketed as as educational devices so the relative lack of educational content (textbooks) is not a problem. But the Kno and the Adam, and the eDGe are calling themselves tools for the educational community so they better have what people want available.... and available easily at a reasonable price. I think the price of the initial device is less important than easily available content at reasonable prices. When you read about people unable to get the textbooks they want, that could spell trouble in the future.

08-13-2010, 02:33 AM	#7
alefor Edge User	The key to everything remains CONTENT. And the Adam (and Kno) if they ever exist will die quickly without easy access to the content that people want. I believe that this is the success of the iProducts. As long as you are willing to buy into the Apple ecosystem thru iTunes, you can have crazy amounts of content, easily (music, TV shows, movies, Podcasts, etc). Thus the success. Of course, they have never really been marketed as as educational devices so the relative lack of educational content (textbooks) is not a problem. But the Kno and the Adam, and the eDGe are calling themselves tools for the educational community so they better have what people want available.... and available easily at a reasonable price. I think the price of the initial device is less important than easily available content at reasonable prices. When you read about people unable to get the textbooks they want, that could spell trouble in the future.