- People are dubious over Apple iPad.
- Kindle taking a beating by publishers.
- Apple bans any mention of Android from app store.
- 80,000 Nexus phones sold in 30 days.
- 3G Slingplayer for iPhone.
- Huge MSFT patch Tuesday coming.
- Xbox Live dead. At least for old Xbox.
- Jon Schwartz is a character.
- Symbian now officially Open Source.
- And teenagers are odd, check out why.
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Banned using Android? This is getting childish Apple.
Wasn’t it Google that was blocking oh-so-shocking cursed words on their telephone (by which I mean words like fuck shit damn bukkake etc.)?
If I don’t get a discount for doing without the paper they can keep it. I’ll wait for the paper back or at least buy it second handed. The publisher’s profit on seconded handed books is zero.
Jobs has a god complex which is part of why I don’t do Apple.
Any complaints – months before use or sale – especially different from the flavors of whining before the introduction of the iPhone?
Just curious.
I’m not at all sceptical about the iPad… except maybe the price. A computer that is primarily a media delivery system is long over due.
#5,
Wow, I nailed that one on launch day. It is nice to finally get some validation from it. I agree, the iPad is simply the nicest digital photo frame that money can buy!
Apple waves the ban hammer again, this time banning an education app because the app used the word “android” in it’s decription. The guy was simply trying to explain in his app descr that the app did good in an android apps competition so that people would try it out. Apple’s communistic approach continues.
Screw Apple.
#3 – exactly. Buy second hand or use the library.
>> GregA said, on February 6th, 2010 at 6:19 am
>> 5,
>> Wow, I nailed that one on launch day. It is nice to finally get some validation from it. I agree, the iPad is simply the nicest digital photo frame that money can buy!
He. He. And a PC is the best deck of cards, money can buy!
I haven’t played with the iPad, so I have no opinion onthat specific model, but the CONCEPT of a computer “pad” is inevitable.
Dedicated eBook readers are a transitional technology — like dedicated MP3 players and digital cameras which are being incorporated into phones.
You could see that trend years ago, even though, oddly, I got a lot of flack on this blog when I first suggested it.
Smart phones are great for many functions but watching full-length movies or reading the newspaper or a novel is not among them.
If the publishing industry was visionary (and they are clearly not!), they would make these “pads” free for the cost of a subscription. (So would the movie industry.)
Electronic wireless subscriptions are the only financial model I can think of which might save the newspaper industry. This is surely true for much of old media.
Netflix seems to understand this with their “free” streaming service for subscribers.
HuLu is great technology but could hurt TV the way internet news hurt the newspaper industry.
The TV industry needs to embrace this technology FAST.
One financial model would be to offer last week’s reruns for FREE, and then offer EVERY PAST EPISODE of EVERY series, of EVERY season since TV was invented for a subscription fee delivered wirelessly to a “pad” or a box connected to your TV. People would really get addicted to this.
They could spend a decade digitizing and rolling out long-forgotten episodes with much fanfare and people would dig it, I have absolutely no doubt.
# 9 Greg Allen, I like your idea of a subscription model and making all old content part of the deal, but it seems to me the most logical use for a pad is as a “satellite” to a smart phone. For example, if you’re reading a news story on your smart phone and want to go into it in greater depth, send the link to the pad to read more comfortably when you have time. You could also get a better look at photos, watch content that’s too long to watch on a phone screen, etc. But that would require too much standardization to work with all the different phones — Apple will never go for it. It goes against their corporate DNA, which is all for control and proprietary everything.
Speaking of corporate DNA, JCD says he doesn’t know why Microsoft wants to cut off owners of the original XBox from XBox Live, why they don’t just set up a separate section for them. The answer is that then someone would have to get some actual work done, not just foist it off on a dozen internal committees, but mainly it’s the way they have always gone: orphan the old product and force everyone to buy new ones. Is it just one more thing they copied from Apple, or has it been part of the company from the beginning? You decide, I’m tired of thinking about Gates & MS.