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Originally Posted by rcuadro
As much as I hate to admit it, an Apple reader/tablet/slate (whatever you want to call it) will be popular no matter how much it cost or how shitty the battery life is. People tend to give Apple a lot of lea way but matching it up with iTunes will make it easy for tech dummies to spend money on books like they do on music.
My ideal apple slate would be one that has an iMac docking station  |
I suspect the battery life will be horrible if it is a tablet. I've owned two iPod touches, a 1st gen. and a 2nd gen., and both have very short battery life when reading eBooks, even with the screen brightness turned down to a VERY low setting with BT and WiFi both turned off. Cool devices, but rather worthless away from an alternate power source. My BB Curve on the other hand has a battery that lasts for days.
And whatever Apple releases/announces you can count on two things.
1) It will be way overpriced.
2) It will be limited by Steve Jobs so that he can make the most money off of apps and content, and he will control what you are allowed to put on it
Hey Applephiles and iPodiphiles, wake up! Those 1984 anti-IBM, TV commercials that depicted IBM as "big brother" are ironic now since Apple turned into a worse "big brother" than IBM and Microsoft combined! Neither IBM nor Microsoft ever had total monopolies over both the hardware and the operating software, much less the content too. Where is a Teddy Roosevelt with his big stick to smash the rotten Apple into smaller independent companies to bust their monopoly?!?