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Originally Posted by Harmon
All good points.
There's another dimension to the question, though - will the other booksellers allow their apps to be used on the iPad?
The obvious question is the Kindle. The iPad is a direct competitor with the DX. The price points are the same. Putting the Kindle app on the iPad turns the iPad into a DX. So...does Amazon maximize its profits by selling books for the iPad, or by restricting books to the iPhone?
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I think the other companies will. In the long run there's more money to be made selling content to as many people as possible than there is in selling devices to access content.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the DX. I can't see there being much of a market for it at $489 when you can buy the iPad for $10 more which does a lot more. And probably can do PDFs better as I'd assume table of contents and other features that don't work on the DX will work on the iPad with PDFs.
It really needs a big price cut. And it probably needs a DX2 with more features (make it more like the Que) to really have a chance.