kevin said:
>   I think you both need to re-read the chart/article.

what makes you think i had any trouble understanding the data?

likewise, i felt keith grasped the numbers just fine.  he was merely
saying that the sample was small, and perhaps not representative,
good points, both, the second of which had not been addressed...
(the first is acknowledged right off the bat in the .cnn article.)


>   Sounds like 25 people out of 212 brought
>   an tablet like device to the dorms with them
>   and admitted it during freshmen orientation. 
>   12 had Kindles, 12 had Ipads, and 1 had a sony reader,
>   hardly a plateau of achievement.

hard numbers were not given, so that's a guess, but i would not
question it, given the round nature of the percentages provided.

but we will have to disagree if this is "a plateau of achievement";
25 out of 212, if it is a representative number, would be 11.8%...
considering the ipad is under 6 months out of the starting gate,
and hasn't had its first holiday season yet, 5.4% is a healthy rate.
and since the kindle skews old, 5.4% of college freshmen is great.

and the fact that _each_ of the machines is doing well _alongside_
the _other_ should give cheer to all of us oldtimers who have been
waiting for e-books to punch through for several _decades_ now...

and the "bottom line" is that both apple and amazon say they are
quite happy with the success of their products, and they back up
the statements with cold hard cash advertising the crap out of 'em.
they can't match all the political ads (at least not here in california,
where meg whitman is spending a fortune), but they pass viagra...

-bowerbird