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Originally Posted by brecklundin
OMG...I guess I am offically a zealot now? ahhh...cripes!! hehehehe....
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Well, just a little, lol
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no I think he is not living up to the responsibility his position comes with... He is in a uniquely powerful position where he CAN influence if people read or not... And yes, it is reasonable that a large (I feel majority) portion of the Apple fans will simply be even more dismissive about reading...
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Seriously, you both massively overstate the influence of a man who is, after all, just the chief exec. of a computer and consumer electronics company, and understate (insult?) the intelligence of people who happen to buy that company's product - whatever their reasons.
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But he would prefer to charge $20 for updates to iTouch's already purchased but include those same added features and updates come with new devices at the same price.
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Sigh. This is because of a relatively obscure US accounting practice - part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (google it) effectively prohibits a publicly traded company from giving away updates that are not simple bug-fixes. The iPod update included 5 applications that weren't originally supplied, plus the firmware update. iPhone already had these apps; it
was simply an update, so no charge was made.
Is the update worth the $20 to iPod Touch users? Only if you need it! Nobody's putting a gun to the heads of current owners saying 'you must update' - their iPods will continue to function exactly as they did when they bought them, without the update. As always, the charge seems to have upset far more non-apple users than anyone else!
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If Jobs had a vested interest in ebooks then he would have followed the facts up with that "...but we are going to..." statement. He did not because he does not have anything to gain from doing so...
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Well, a statement of intent from Apple about entering the eBook market with a reader would certainly give lots of people who are sitting on the fence re. the current readers pause for thought - and send shivers of anticipation down the spines of both consumers and competition alike, though probably for different reasons...
And despite the year-long (not sure if it was, but it felt like it...) media furore surrounding iPhone, Apple don't always give advance warning of upcoming products - they were tight-lipped about MacBook Air before launch last week, weren't they?
Anyway, happy reading - whatever your medium of choice. Pete.