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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage All the stuff that a Mac does! Presumably that means running professional productivity applications like Photoshop and Indesign, and Final Cut? On a 10inch screen Operated by fingers. If Apple d…
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The tablet should not be an iPhone, nor a computer. It needs some real productivity applications that are not possible on the iPhone and an interface and user interaction that fits into the real world. To me that means in addition to a touch interfa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Glockpop ...The only reason to put the full Mac OS X on it would be to allow it to run crap from the 90s like Office and Photoshop. Apple has a modern software model that is humiliating both the conventional desktop an…
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Apple TV needs new content streams to increase sales. A deal with Hulu or some of the networks to add commercial based streaming through their existing channels would make it a more attractive product. Some form of "À la carte" subscription …
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Give me an alternative to cable and I will consider it. That means I have to be able to watch it on my TV. Also I need a set number of channels to watch, I can get local OTA if needed but would want all the major networks represented in the channel …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I really don?t see how it could be unclear that having that much tar and dust build up in a machine is Apple?s fault and responsibility under the warranty. If the damage is caused by smoke buildup then I a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cmf2 There is no reason those key apps couldn't be created for a tablet running iPhone OS. In fact I would bet on a tablet coming with some new apps. Even Safari would probably be redone for a tablet. I think that t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cmf2 A...I am interested in why you require "full" OSX on a $600 device... For me it is Photoshop and Illustrator and unfortunately the Microsoft suite. I also think it NEEDS to have a pen/stylus. Yes I realize the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaveGee That 33% figure, does that include bulk shipping the product back to the US as well as warehouse storage (and maintenance, inventory, theft management, etc) as well as shipping to distributors and/or purchasers…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Yeah, I suppose the distribution is free. And, what's a "forum on Linkedin"? Some sort of trade authority on textbook costing? Linkedin is a website for professional networking. There was a discuss…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram ... It is unreal of you to assume that the textbook will continue to be sold for $150 in this medium... I have worked in textbook publishing for over a decade. Recently I was on a forum on Linkedin wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by voodooru i used to work at Pearson Education publishing. The "editing" of history to appease our customers, especially our biggest one, the state of Texas was appalling! And our director just used to shrug and say, we …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasein This is an excellent point: that a newspaper is not synonymous with news itself. Newspapers are just a medium and that medium, unlike 100 years ago, is today only one of many available. What was IN the newspape…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee ...The truth is that the majority of textbook content is knowledge that is un-copyrightable, and in a sense "open source." When the time comes to write the latest copy of "Biology" or "Chemistry" the publishe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse $5K/chapter hardly seems like an obscene amount. For the 10 chapter book you referenced, that's $5OK total. That's peanuts to what Dan Brown gets as an advance for churning out pulp. The reason that (college…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Amorph Excellent. I thought it sounded familiar. Thanks for the link. So there you go. A stylus with no stylus, and Apple's got the patent on it. If it was granted in '07 it was filed some time before, which means t…
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I disagree with the Cube comments, it was functionally elegant if over priced. There were some minor problems with the power button and "cracks" but I didn't have any of those and new designs and technology often have at least minor problems as manu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brucep SUPPOSE i told you apple will start selling TV sets ? No one has predicted this . And in the last go round no one dreamed of 13"uni MBP and the sd card slot and return of fire wire. No one. With the new M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum 3) Ditto the stylus. Apple does have a patent where a MultiTouch surface can detect the position where a stylus would be, if you position your fingers as if holding a stylus-- so this could be implemente…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brucep it's not so simple as you say yet it is simple is it not ? china first killed whole Usa industries by subsidizing there plants while we slept or even helped them it's not just labor costs its worker righ…