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jim said:
...but one can walk into the front door of Best Buy and actually try out (or buy) from a half dozen or more different eBook Readers from the major vendors (Apple excepted).
i woulda swore that i've played with an ipad in best buy... but who cares? so what? if you don't like apple's policy, then don't buy from apple. it's really that simple. really. and if you think apple's policy will sink it in the marketplace, you don't need to say anything at all, not one thing, do you? just say "i predict it will sink apple in the marketplace" and come back later, if it actually happens, and say "told you so". all the handwringing just marks you as drama-queens... -bowerbird p.s. but we all know that what you're _really_ afraid of is that you're dead-wrong, and apple will be able to get away with it. go ahead, just like tim o'reilly, and make a "bold prediction"... so if you end up wrong, you'll have some egg on your face too.
i woulda swore that i've played with an ipad in best buy...
Sorry, didn't see any in the B. B. I walked into -- but maybe it was lost in the sea of Cheap Asian Android Tab Clones. My B. B. has a ton of eInk eBook Readers front and central when you walk into the store, where you can pick them up and actually try them and compare to see what actually works and what is just hot air. The LCD tabs are piled up in the back. But, my region is known for its veracious readers, so maybe your B. B. looks differently. I walked out with a Sony Pocket Reader, since I wanted to have at least one real EPUB machine to develop on, not just MOBI machines -- there is something good to be said for "cash and carry" -- and to not having some pimply teenager breathing down your back saying "Can I Help You???" whenever one wants to try something "new and interesting" on a reader device. I was tempted to buy the pink one -- but I wasn't man enough -- so I went with the silver. I am happy with the wide competition we are seeing in the eBook Reader and Tablet market, and am very happy when anybody makes an informed choice and ends up with a product which they are long-term happy with. And I am happy when PG steps up to the bat and supports the wide range of devices that real customers really want to read on -- including the PDF market, however big or small that is. Personally, I am a big believer in reflow, as in ePub or MOBI -- because it works for me -- and I not a fan of fixed-format devices such as txt70 and PDF -- because they don't work for me -- but, there certainly are other people who like fixed-format. In fact, I haven't really had to work with fixed format devices since the late 1970s -- and I sure don't want to have to go back there again! PS: Excepting the txt70 that PG forces on us. I do have to keep going back to that. Kind of makes me feel like a young pimply teenager myself again. not. Defn: fan -- an abbreviation for *FANATIC*
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