Most iCloud features are already in iBooks. At least the big one, which I mentioned in another thread, of syncing the page-read place and annotations of all books including sideloaded DRM-free ePubs.
Automatic "pushing" of purchased books is nice but really not that much of a timesaver. I doubt that sideloaded books will be synced the the cloud and then pushed down to other devices, in any event.
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
That's true. However, I'd still consider that a big difference.  |
Apple's laptops and mobile devices and high-end workstations are roughly the same price as PCs with the same specs. Apart from the cost of SSDs and RAM, even an iMac is the same price or cheaper as a similar PC + monitor combo.
They do not serve the low end of the computer market very well. If you want a $400 laptop Apple is not your best choice. It makes no sense to compare the "cheapest Mac" and the "cheapest PC" when the cheapest Mac is much, much better than the cheapest PC.
Another area where they are uncompetitive is the mid-range tower. If you want a high-end consumer desktop PC, their only option is the iMac, which incorporates a monitor and is not user-upgradeable apart from RAM. You can save thousands on a mid-range tower PC vs. the nearest Mac equivalent. The Mac Pro is a Xeon workstation and is most appropriate for design or scientific work. But it's a mistake the extrapolate from this to iPad or Macbook pricing, which is very good.