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On the other hand, if they ever put out an iNewton, and someone designs an e-book reading app for it, I bet they won't put up too much of a fight over porting it to their device and making a few more bucks on something that "no one does." |
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...wait for it... $5 BILLION in the bank! ![]() Bill Gates' "timely cash infusion" was a face-saving part of making a deal to settle outstanding patent disputes (Microsoft paid Apple something upwards of $1billion over a couple of years), promise to keep developing Office for the Mac for at least 5 years, and (oh yeah) invest $100 million in Apple. Not a rescue, though. Xenophon |
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Most of the people here just can't be pleased. You can find fault in everything if you want. |
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When we take a look at the history of the book reading part of humanity, it is obvious that the percentage was never very high. Why, it was exactly zero before the first book was made. Today, I believe the percentage is relatively high, surely higher than in the 17th century. I do not fear for the future of reading. In this case, we have to consider just who has said that the people do not read anymore. It is entirely possible that Jobs who has achieved so much also has missed some things. Maybe he has never experienced the joy of reading a fictional novel, something which is not a technical manual or a book on methods of making more more money out of money. If that is the case, I pity him.
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If Jobs doesn't think people read, he should ride a New York City subway some time. Lots of books in evidence, along with iPods. (You can read and listen at the same time...) But meanwhile, he's looking for big numbers. He doesn't want to sell tens of thousands of a device -- he wants to sell millions. An iPod will get that sort of numbers. An ebook reader won't, at least at present. Those unhappy at the prospect of no ebook reader from Apple should count their blessings. Given Apple's track record in product design, it would be very pretty, dead easy to use as long as you only wanted certain basic functionality, and defaulting to a proprietary ebook format only available through Apple. ______ Dennis |
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I think you can not say that Jobs is jerk until amazon sells the 100 mth Kindle.
He is right in a sense. I don't read fiction for example. It's a complete waste of time (except a very few classics). I read non-fiction books for information and for things that you don't learn in school or people don't talk about in everyday conversations (unfortunately). I wouldn't call it reading, it's kind of researching. |
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People are NOT going to be paying $300-$400 to read newspapers and magazines. Especially when the reading experience is better via the paper copies.
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Besides, Jobs isn't taking into account magazine and periodical reading, which probably dwarfs the book industry in terms of amount of material read on a regular basis, and much of which is devoted to--wait for it--entertainment, multimedia, the very markets that Jobs favors. Much of periodical content is simply advertisement for other products (like movies, music, and computers). You'd think he'd see a use for that. |
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Jobs is simply wrong. Since alphabetization is as widespread as never in history, bookmarket is expanding. This also due to online bookmarket (not ebooks, but selling hard copies over online stores).
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I remember very well the financial commentary at the time and Microsoft move was clearly viewed as reassurance to investors. Today Apple is an extraordinarily successful company, but then it was regarded as an also ran due especially to early decisions (in which Mr. Jobs had lots of input) not to license their OS. Of course nobody knew about iPods and mp3's then, how they will take the world by storm. So my original comments were not meant as an insult and I respect Apple and Mr. Jobs a lot, however it does not mean that we gotta take his words as prophecy As an aside, this episode (Microsoft putting money in Apple) is a good example of how quickly fortunes reverse in the market, since in the late 90's when Apple's stock was stagnant to down and Microsoft was going up and up exponentially, nobody would have bet that by 2008, Apple's stock will be about 10 (1000%) times higher, while Microsoft would be roughly about 50% lower from its highest level and just about where it was in 1998. |
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