The iPhone certainly is a cool device. But ultimately, it doesn't do anything that a good smartphone can do today... it just does it in a cool way, wth touchscreens and moving graphics. That interface is sure to be reproduced in new devices (the Chinese have already cloned it), so we may all be using phones or PDAs with similar animated touchscreen interfaces eventually.
The iPhone may be sexy... but at this point, we don't even know if the iPhone will make it in the market, given its high cost and its lack of support across the mobile phone providers. It may remain a niche or cult product, and it isn't immune to being discontinued yet.
And I don't care how sexy it is... that's not going to be enough to make people read.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
I think it's a little bit ironic that Jerry Pournelle is taking this position on ebooks, given his historical stance on ebook "piracy," but I guess that's a different matter in his mind.
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I guess he assumes technology will find a way to create the perfect DRM system and solve his piracy issues.