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yvanleterrible · 05-23-2009, 10:37 AM

Like it or not, every major new device brought to the Apple line of products is always accompanied by a choice of interesting ergonomic software help, new type of function, new gadgetry... or interesting whatever. Part of the fun is also trying to guess what innovation will be the next one. It is an exercise outlet for the imagination, to give access to unfulfilled needs, to find them and find solution. Period.
Do we always have to point the difference between intuition and pragmatism? Both live here at MR and flourish.

The surprise factor Apple has been known for, explains the positive anticipation one might find around an Apple announcement. Such enthousiasm has nothing to do with fanboyhood for the majority of Apple product users. I will have as much anticipation for Sony, Sanyo or Samsung. The really unusable products from Apple have been few.

This period, as this site celebrates, is the birth of a new ways in reading. The traditional media distribution systems for information that was in flux since the arrival of internet is now in turmoil and is now joined in it by the thought unnassailable temple that is litterature. We all know that.

There is an information medium that has benefited intensely from Apple's ventures in new ways such as Desktop Publishing. Magazine Distribution. As other sacred cows, magazines are shaking through to their bases from the onslaught of internet that forces them to migrate from paper to a less protected/controlled format. We all know that.

My point is this. Sony has beaten Apple to the ebook with a complete device/distribution tactic such as the success type Apple became famous for. A double hit. Wouldn't it be logical to assume that Apple could do wonders in designing a magazine/newspaper/pdf document viewer? The way that their iPod touch handles documents bigger than its display size, brings images of ease for any successor Apple would decide on.

For one, I will embrace a better refinement solution to a tablet as a successor to the paper magazine, whatever entity creates it. Apple has a good track record at evolving concepts, even if it has a few pimples on its nose.

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yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Like it or not, every major new device brought to the Apple line of products is always accompanied by a choice of interesting ergonomic software help, new type of function, new gadgetry... or interesting whatever. Part of the fun is also trying to guess what innovation will be the next one. It is an exercise outlet for the imagination, to give access to unfulfilled needs, to find them and find solution. Period. Do we always have to point the difference between intuition and pragmatism? Both live here at MR and flourish. The surprise factor Apple has been known for, explains the positive anticipation one might find around an Apple announcement. Such enthousiasm has nothing to do with fanboyhood for the majority of Apple product users. I will have as much anticipation for Sony, Sanyo or Samsung. The really unusable products from Apple have been few. This period, as this site celebrates, is the birth of a new ways in reading. The traditional media distribution systems for information that was in flux since the arrival of internet is now in turmoil and is now joined in it by the thought unnassailable temple that is litterature. We all know that. There is an information medium that has benefited intensely from Apple's ventures in new ways such as Desktop Publishing. Magazine Distribution. As other sacred cows, magazines are shaking through to their bases from the onslaught of internet that forces them to migrate from paper to a less protected/controlled format. We all know that. My point is this. Sony has beaten Apple to the ebook with a complete device/distribution tactic such as the success type Apple became famous for. A double hit. Wouldn't it be logical to assume that Apple could do wonders in designing a magazine/newspaper/pdf document viewer? The way that their iPod touch handles documents bigger than its display size, brings images of ease for any successor Apple would decide on. For one, I will embrace a better refinement solution to a tablet as a successor to the paper magazine, whatever entity creates it. Apple has a good track record at evolving concepts, even if it has a few pimples on its nose. Last edited by yvanleterrible; 05-25-2009 at 08:03 PM.