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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
I'm sure he's thinking of something Instapaper like. It downloads your stuff when you're in connected range...it's there when you're not.
I don't think that that is Amazons plan.
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I don't think that was what he said. he is quoted as saying "entirely web-based reader" and that means nothing, no content is ever stored locally, period. His comment was to propose a work-around for the Apple policy issue by never letting the data, in this case the book/newspaper/music/movie do anything more than get cached on the device as any other web page. Then again there are the limitations of Safari though of course there are some other browser options.
What I took away from that blog article and the article where the quotes come from is that Apple has screwed-the-pooch this time. Everyone, including publishers are completely in the weeds even if their app has been previously approved. If you read that article I linked from the Euro publishers it discusses that there seems no rhyme nor reason as to if or how a publisher/app developer is or is not notified. And the notification can be formal or complete in passing and informal belying the significance of the matter. This is not how things are done, and especially not when looking at the money represented by ebooks and other content served up from these sources.
And as I and others here have pointed out, we users came or where planing to come to Apple to avoid the "a new day a different fire to put out" scenario that everyone tries to say is the bad part of other platforms, especially MS. Well, this time Apple has become it's own arsonist, potentially.
for now I am content to sit back and wait. I had already decided I wanted to see what the iPad 2 will bring to the table and what, if any Android or preferably Win7 devices offer this spring or summer. I had hoped to move to a solution by now and the iPad seemed a very reasonable solution for a year or so until other devices matured. But now I am not giving Apple, or any other company my cash. In fact I might have upped my requirement to a device using Gorilla Glass AND a Wacom digitizer which was in my original requirements list anyway but I was willing to wait when I found there is a Dragon NaturallySpeaking app for the iPad even if it is pretty crippled, it would work for my needs well enough for the short term of a year plus it runs on the Touch as well.