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.

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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