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They are marketing geniuses that's for certain. However we get some nice benefits if Apple does bring this product to market - the bargaining power apple could use with publishers.
They have a lot of oomph in regards to market share in the media sector. They bargain wirh TV/Music/Movie companies on a regular basis and retail millions (billions?) of dollars of media via itunes.
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... And a new restrictive ebook format is born...
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Also we know Apple makes great hardware
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...Exploding ipods/iphones/itouch's...
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they dominate the smartphone and mp3 player industries after entering them with no market share and crushing the competition.
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Crushing competition is not a good thing. We want to encourage competition.
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The device would be color, touchscreen, use iphone apps, have google docs, google maps, internet, would act as a portable media player for tv/movies, would have blu-tooth (probably). Everyone gets so excited about it because the technology is at a stage where you can have a computer in your pocket.
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So it's not an ebook reader then.
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So compared to the other 'ebook readers' which are grey screen and very old school it will be light years ahead. People will buy it for mobile computing and suddenly everyone will have an e-book device in their pocket (a more practical one than the iphone). Publishers will want the new sales and flock to it imo.
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Not sure how an ebook reader that works as an ebook reader is 'old school'. And how you can say it will be light years ahead when not even a demo unit has been seen.
By the sounds of it the "all singing all dancing Iphone on steroids" if it is ever made, will be the thing for you. But it definitely isn't for me, I want to be able to put what I want on my gadgets and not what a company tells me it will allow.