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three things make a post?

Jan 27, 2010 17:53

1. In case anyone was in doubt, I think we can fairly safely assume there are no women in Apple's marketing department. The iPad?!?!?!?!? Really, boys? Jezebel is collecting iPad jokesThe idiocy of the name aside, I'm mostly interested to see what this might do to the e-book market. Otherwise, however, Apple's ridiculously proprietary attitude ( Read more... )

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gabolange January 27 2010, 23:58:53 UTC

I do so enjoy the "MaxiPod."

And . . . color me underwhelmed. I mean, I think it's going to do interesting things to the ebooks market, and the software and purchasing ability for the tablet thingy do look interesting . . . but I kind of just want an ereader that is just an ereader. Kindle, here I come?

pellucid January 28 2010, 00:18:13 UTC

In the sense of saying "Mac's iPad" three times fast ( ... )

gabolange January 28 2010, 00:31:41 UTC

I have basically decided that since I have to spend an insane amount of time airborne in the next couple of months, and I don't really need to cart a library with me to China, I'm getting myself a Kindle and chalking it up to trip expense. I had sort of hoped to do what you are thinking--wait and see where the technology comes down--but in terms of sheer convenience at this particular moment, I figure I'll get a Kindle now, and then when the industry reorients itself in a few years, I can either replace it or not. Or something!

pellucid January 28 2010, 15:29:52 UTC

Oh wow, I didn't realize you'd made that decision! I can't wait to play with yours when you get it and I see you, then! ;) Because I am, as you know, quite fascinated, but I will not be investing any time soon, myself.

gabolange January 28 2010, 16:27:24 UTC

So I can use the Kindle as pellucid bait, that's what you're saying? ;)

abyssinia4077 January 28 2010, 00:34:35 UTC

But I also know a lot of people who do a LOT of reading already on their iPod Touches, and the biggest complaint I've heard from them is not that the screen is backlit or too computery or whatever, but that it's too small for extended reading.

My biggest complaint is actually that you have to jump through a lot of hoops to actually load any text onto your Touch that you might want to read - it's set up to easily sinc anything in iTunes, safari bookmarks, and photos, but not any kind of document. So you can do it, but it takes hoop jumping.

Yeah, it's small, but I consider that a feature. For extended reading I still don't think anything beats paper.

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