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Two ways to get onto iBooks for iPhone/iPad: 1. Downloaded ePub book, drag to DropBox, and open to iBooks. OR 2. download ePub book, email to yourself as attachment, and open attachment in Mail.app to launch it in iBooks. Pottermore shou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna I had a feeling they would work out something like this. A couple of things are going on here: 1. I have not seen a breakdown of how HBO's iTunes Store license revenue compares to its other revenue st…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Ooh? um? series? I see that being abused. People make a chapter in iBooks Author, publish it, $9.99. Then they make a new chapter. Second "book" in the "series". Publish it, $9.99? I hope it …
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I love Amazon Prime for the two-day delivery, but I rarely watch the free videos because the selection and UI are both pretty terrible. If I could get Netflix-quality selection (which isn't spectacular itself) and still get two-day delivery on sh…
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Leave the enclosure alone. Cram in more battery.
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Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz They might make them, but good luck getting Apple to sell them. If my school district were to propose a large capital expenditure to buy iPads which would force them to buy all textbooks fr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleStud This is an utterly boring development. Another sign of the terrible lack of innovation coming from the telcos such as Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc. Quote: Originally Posted by gordy Who the hell need…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ShaolinDave wait, Apple "owns" the likeness of Steve Jobs? I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out that Apple has a patent on wearing jeans and black turtle necks.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Ah, that should be good news for NFL fans who own Apple TVs. Please don't flog me for that. Fortunately even if this IS true, it's no more indicator of a physical television set than anything else. Appl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Feynman There does need to be a lot more textbooks available on the iBookstore. I would rather support the iBookstore than the Kindle Store when buying my books for college. My guess: The announcement will be a part…
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Quote: Originally Posted by adrianm2000 It sounds great, but I haven't heard anything yet that would allow me to dump my cable provider (Comcrap, which I'd sorely love to do.) I'd still have to use them for broadband Internet. For better or wo…
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If Apple would add a music subscription option, iTunes Match would be Spotify on steroids. I can play any song on any device, dump about 10 GB off my primary MacBook, AND my playlists will sync across devices? I would pay $10-$12 a month for that.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta 40,000 subscribers is hardly 'many' when you consider that there are 300,000,000 Americans. (and I believe the 40,000 figure is global). The better comparison would be to the magazine's print subscriptions,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit [even at ± 10% it still bodes well for Apple... so my comment still holds because at 52,000 the rate is still around ±2%... and the results are still excellent for Apple even at a ±8% difference from 52 t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Really? How is my statement wrong? I mentioned nothing about credible but I did mention that I'd bet the results wouldn't be that much different even if you added 3 zeroes to the number. Can you …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mhikl 21 percent use their iPad in the bathroom. Now that is suspect and probably a joke answer. Still, if the survey is ±3%, it does bode well for the iPad. I may get the iPad 3 when it comes out, though the MBA 13…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iwarriorpoet A stronger mapping App would be great. I personally hope Apple partners with someone to come up with a comprehensive, integrated fitness application that incorporates training of various kinds, nutrition, …
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Photo Stream was a good first step toward cloud-syncing photo libraries, but Photos/iPhoto still needs work. Photo Stream is more of a push mechanism for getting photos to iPhoto, and it needs to be more of a cloud-based app where you can edit phot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iVlad Looks like Amazon knows how to run its business. They are pretty much offering these "key" features from iPad on their own platform. Their App Store, Music and Video store and now Newspapers and Magazine with Boo…
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This is a good sign that Apple may morph Photo Stream into more of an iPhotos-everywhere app along the lines of iBooks, Dropbox, Downcast, etc.: Save your photos on your Mac. Automatically. You can have Aperture automatically import photos fro…