I've mentioned Apple's new iPad on this blog from time to time.
It seems to be attracting equal proportions of adoring fans and grumpy disdainers. In that light, I was amused that two readers of this blog each sent me a link to a different article today:
As you can probably guess, the respective authors of the articles don't exactly agree with each other! Still, it's entertaining to read each perspective.
Ah, technogeek fanboys . . .
Peter
I'm reminded of one of the well known measures of success in today's world: the appearance of a web site titled "www.-sux.com"...
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On the other hand, it's NOT an e-book reader. The LCD screen still has the shortcomings of LCD screens, versus e-book readers. There are larger e-book readers cost competitive with the ipad that have quite a bit of functionality.
ReplyDeletee-ink is, I think, not at the core of the expense of most readers, and it is getting better--response time is dropping, contrast is improving, and there are color readers coming out in the next few years.
The big problem with e-book readers is they're always linked to heavy copyright crap, and proprietary material acquisition. That's changing though, too, and it's also a problem with the ipad--Apple is heavy on propriety.