Quote:
Originally Posted by scottjl
don't expect Apple to deliver the best application for everything, ibooks does the basics very well, for the rest, there's the app store. and don't go faulting apple on this, i don't see microsoft including an amazing ebook reader in windows or windows mobile. android doesn't include a do-all ebook reader either.
|
Well, they don't market their product as ebook readers, which Apple certainly has been doing. People are going to expect to get decent ebook reading support out of the box. They shouldn't have to buy another application, and when, e.g., a perfectly valid ePub doesn't display right on the iPad, the customer may well think it's a problem with the book rather than their software.
But comparing them to other companies isn't really relevant. Microsoft's level of incompetence is beyond the pale. With Android, it's mostly open source, and anyone can develop for it, so if they came out with a device with similar problems, it would be a problem anyone could contributing to fixing. Apple products are so closed that you couldn't even fix the problem locally on your own device even if you knew how.
Quote:
|
also, the ipad isn't available globally yet, so for the US character set, the support is just fine. maybe when they release it globally they'll include better language support.
|
The "US character set"? What's that? People in the US don't speak languages other than English? They don't do mathematics? Yes, actually, we do. Last I checked, I live here too.