michael said:
Supposedly NOT plain text file!!!
don't forget that the thing runs iphone apps. so the eucalyptus app -- which pulls down plain-text files from project gutenberg and formats them, quite nicely, on the fly -- will run on the ipad just fine, along with all the other e-reader apps, like stanza... don't get too wrapped up in what "native" apple-supplied apps will (or will not) do...
What's the split between iPod and iPhone?
don't get tripped up in all the terminology. there are 250 million ipods out in the world. those are just music-players. they don't count. there are 75 million iphone/itouch machines... the "itouch" is also called "an ipod touch", and it's basically an iphone without the phone part. (and yes, every iphone has an ipod in it as well.) i think the basic split is 50 million _iphones_ and 25 million _itouch_ machines, but the itouch trend line is even steeper than iphone. *** michael said:
From Ohio:
No camera was a killer non-app No outboard flash was a killer non-app No outboard drives was a killer non-app No DRM free options was a killer. . . .
Lots of reasons this person won't buy one.
as usual, the people who do not buy a product do not matter. it's the people who _do_ buy it -- especially the _number_ of people who buy it, and what they think after using it -- that matters... -bowerbird