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McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by papachito »

zackattack wrote: post #68
dnsworks wrote: post #59

You are all very, very good little consumers. And Apple doesn't even have to pay you for generating it's hype.

Dude, get over it. Let me guess: you grow all your own food and you abstain from all media (oh, hey, wait a second..)? Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology, and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives.

> Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology

Probably.

> and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives

but that sounds a little to fanboy, "joy" to your life? really?

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by zackattack »

papachito wrote: post #71
zackattack wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, get over it. Let me guess: you grow all your own food and you abstain from all media (oh, hey, wait a second..)? Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology, and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives.

> Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology Probably. > and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives but that sounds a little to fanboy, "joy" to your life? really?

Yes dude. I get tons of joy from my Macbook. I love it. It connects me to the Internet. It plays music. It's wonderful.

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by gjm11 »

alanthonyc wrote: post #70
gjm11 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean Hanlon's?

Hah. I think either one would work.

I have a variant on Hanlon's Razor that I find particularly appropriate when dealing with telephone companies, utility companies, government bureaucracies, etc.: Never attribute to benevolence what can be explained by incompetence.

Conveniently, this principle also gives the same answer to the question of why McGraw said what he did.

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by kordless »

greendestiny wrote: post #57
kordless wrote: post #29

He used the term 'tabloid' a couple of times. I've been doing a bit of trademark searches the past few days, so I just popped over and did one on the 'tabloid' trademark: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7... Look down at the prosecution history entries. There's a new entry for appointing a new attorney, just filed about a week and a half ago. Could be a coincidence, but then again...

It's registered to GlaxoSmithKline and limited to class 051 "Cosmetics and toilet preparations", specifically described as PILLS. So probably a coincidence.

Just thinking about the whole Droid thing a few months ago. That was a completely separate class as well...

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by dnsworks »

zackattack wrote: post #74
papachito wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology Probably. > and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives but that sounds a little to fanboy, "joy" to your life? really?

Yes dude. I get tons of joy from my Macbook. I love it. It connects me to the Internet. It plays music. It's wonderful.

It connects you to the internet. It plays music.

My 3 year old daughter has a $100 piece of plastic that does both of those functions.

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by swombat »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #12
swombat wrote: post #6

2 options: 1) Legally incompetent CEO of a major international corporation 2) Another controlled leak from Apple. Which do you think is more likely?

these are the guys that run the textbook market. ill go with option 1.

Looks like you were right!

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by Groxx »

jws wrote: post #31
johnrob wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If e-readers are really going mainstream, McGraw-Hill will have a whole lot more to worry about than a sour relationship with Apple.

On the contrary. The text book industry views 2nd hand text books as theft. Currently they do everything in their power to devalue 2nd hand sales, such as pointlessly churning the edition every year or two or even integrating course notes and syllabus for a specific professor. Once they go to e-readers there will be no 2nd hand sales and they can stop wasting resources on pointless editing and profit skyrockets! Unti…

On the contrary. The text book industry views 2nd hand text books as theft.

Legitimately so, effectively. 2nd-hand sales net them nothing. That said, it frees up more money for the person who was the early-adopter, who is more likely to buy more of the same, but that's not money "in their hands".

That said, making new versions each year is effectively stealing from students who are already strapped for cash. I'd argue that's less ethical than any stretch involving 2nd-hand sales. If they'd put out good books, students would keep them (I keep my good ones), and encourage others to buy them, increasing their sales. * gasp * unthinkable!

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