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Joking aside, the "magic mouse" is my favorite piece of apple hardware so far. It's just awesome. Best 70 bucks I have given to apple.
Seriously? It just feels uncomfortable with my limited testing. What makes it your favorite?
What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can. Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor…
My camera is a lot better than my iPhone as a camera, but the best camera you have is the one you have with you. In the iPad I can carry enough of what I need with me without having to carry multiple devices.
I have not bought any books in the iBook store, as the store is not available in my region yet. But I got books from Baen Books, as well as O'Reilly, in ePUB format.
The attraction to me with the iPad is that I have a choice. An open format reader and a choice of books stores. I did buy a book from Amazon on the iPad Kindle app, but haven't started reading it yet, so time will tell.
What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe. I have an iPad but haven't bought any books, but I don't have a Kindle either. I imagine there are people who are buying iPads instead of Kindles, and they are responsible for a disproportionate number of the 1.5M book…
Even if we had that number, I'm not sure it would tell us much because the two devices are very different. On the Kindle, buying books is the primary thing to do. On the iPad, it is just one of many.
So while many iPad might be sold to people who will never read e-books, these people probably aren't reading on Kindle or even on paper anyway.
The Kindly simply isn't bought by these non-readers, so the average number of books sold per device means something different.
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If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can. Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor…
For students, the eye strain might be worth it just to get a decent PDF reader. The eInk readers available are universally horrible at rendering PDFs.
What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can. Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor…
I've only bought one book on my iPad (just got the 3g on Friday), but the reason I haven't purchased more is that I'm still reading the first one. Once I finish that, I'll be another, etc... so I wouldn't count the iPad book sales just yet, I'd look at them over a longer time frame.
The big numbers will be the ongoing revenue stream of apps and content delivered via those million devices. I think everyone will be surprised at the average monthly spend through the app store/content stores.
Apple is primarily a hardware company. The present AppStore isn't a big money maker for Apple for the iPhone/iPad (look at their financial reports), I don't see why it would be that different for iPad.
What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can. Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor…
The idea that the iPad is difficult to read on has been spread mostly by.. surprise surprise... people that haven't actually read on it.
I'm sure some people may not be able to look at the screen for long. They're the same people that can't look at any computer screen for long.
Yes, you can have glare issues on rare occasion. They're usually solved by shifting the iPad slightly.
Most of us stare at screen over 8 hours a day. I can understand if you want to go home and look at something else but honestly, it has yet to bother me.
The reason so few eBooks have been sold is because the selection is weak. The books I want are almost always in the Kindle store and are rarely in iBooks. However I still use my iPad to read those Kindle books.
Additionally, that's 1.5 books a person via iBooks alone, over a 4 week period, that doesn't count the Kindle purchases. That number seems pretty good to me.
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Joking aside, the "magic mouse" is my favorite piece of apple hardware so far. It's just awesome. Best 70 bucks I have given to apple.
Seriously? It just feels uncomfortable with my limited testing. What makes it your favorite?
It's not as nice of an input device as Apple's trackpad, but it's my favorite mouse to date. (and the first Apple mouse that I actually enjoyed using.)