Book prices and market manipulation...Follow

Over pricing E anything is a great idea. Pirates Bay doesn't get enough traffic.

From what you posted, I don't think Apple did anything wrong, however. Changing from 'buy wholesale and mark up' to 'sell consignment and take a cut' isn't really nefarious.

Which is usually best for the customers, since it generally means better prices and better products for customers.

On another note, though, I can't fathom why anyone would want an iPad as an E-reader. The Nook/Kindle are great because the screen is designed to cause as little stress to your eyes as possible--they frankly look more like book pages than screens.

The iPad, on the other hand, is going to hurt to stare at intently for long periods of time.

I get using it for an e-reader if you already have one. But buying it for an e-reader (which I have seen a lot of) just seems weird to me.

I use an ipod touch for e-books. Once you turn on sepia, it's easy enough on the eyes. I've gotten headaches from it, but only after 6+ hours of continued reading. It's certainly much easier on the eyes than a monitor.

I only wish there was some sort of decent composition app, so as one could do some writing on it beyond just notes.


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I never liked nor trusted Apple, this tale really doesn't help at all.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/06/john-naughton-apple-dominates-market

I'm just saying....


(I have a kindle btw, definitely will never ever get an iphone, not at those prices anyway)

I read outside with my iPad all the time. I have to jack the brightness all the way up, but it's pretty doable, much as using an iPhone outside is completely doable.

That said, I won't push an iPad on anyone. Kindles/Nooks are way cheaper, and not everyone is interested in doing more than just reading with them.

Also yes, I would assume it's your data pool. No one I know has ever said they get eye strain from using an iPad.

If you're prone to eye strain from using a computer, it's likely that that'll happen on an iPad as well. If you use a computer for hours and are fine, you'll be fine on an iPad.

Edited, Aug 14th 2011 12:45pm by Theophany

Easily 10+ hours of reading. It'll keep a charge for a month or so when it's sleeping.

I've watched two full movies on a plane flight and come out of it with ~80% of my battery left.

I'll admit I never got the appeal of the iPad, honestly. I would understand it if it had the accuracy of tablets for art purposes, but it doesn't.

I can only assume that some people hate keyboards.

I guess I'm just not overly impressed with apple as a company then. I think they make great mp3 players (perhaps no longer the best, like they definitely were early on, but still pretty good ***all relative to the cost).

But I HATE their business practice of releasing a new model for all their products every year. I think it's absurd instead of releasing an ipod with a camera this year and video next year, just wait the two years and release the ipod with the camera and video. You shouldn't feel like you are being punished for buying early and supporting the company. I mean, it was like months after the iPad was released that they announced the iPad 2, set for the next year. That's absurd.

That goes for Nintendo as well, recently. Primarily with their rampant DS model releases, but also with them releasing the Wii U just 4 years after the Wii.

Idk, maybe I'm the one being unrealistic. But I don't feel like it's too much to demand quality products from companies without fear them holding back on you because they are already nearly done with their preparations for the next model.

I've never been impressed by a single Apple product.

And now we play the waiting game.

Apple products just seem like a really expensive way to buy a logo.

Take it; take the bait.

Of course they do. Assuming we're talking about actual special purpose tablets designed for CAD work. It's not even a question.



Because Adobe's primary customer base works on Apple products, and Apple consumers tend to be rabid fanboys who'll buy whatever new thing Apple puts their logo on and swear it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Same deal with the design studios. Most of their designers are those same apple fanboys so they're stuck buying them ipads because that's what they want and they need their hands held for them or something.

You can always tell the apple fans because they're the ones who'll insist on using whatever latest apple dodad is out no matter how inefficient it is for the job they're actually doing. I actually give the design guys a bit of slack since that's at least an area Apple does do very well in. I work with a bunch of unix admins. You can't imagine the conversations I've had with some of them. They go something like this:

Fanboy: Look at this! It took me 6 months but I got approval to get the latest coolest <insert Apple product here> instead of a standard workstation. Isn't it great? I can do photo editing and sound mixing and it can run all these apps!

Me: Um... Your job is writing perl code.

Fanboy: Sure. But now I can customize the colors of each terminal and set up all sorts of cool features, and check out all those wallpaper selections!

Me: Ok. But you could have done all that on the standard workstation.

Fanboy: But it's got shell emulation in the new OS so I can do everything I used to.

Me: The workstation has native shells in an X environment. It's a unix box.

Fanboy: But now I can connect from my Apple into our unix server and do everything I could before.

Me: Yeah, but that's what... never mind. What's with the mouse?

Fanby: Oh. Isn't it cool? It's got just one button, which is artistically simplistic in design and superior in all ways.

Me: But how do you right click? Or middle click?

Fanboy: You don't have to. You just hold this key, twist your wrist like so, turn your head sideways and then click. And there's a whole bunch of other features too! By doing this, you're not limited to just one operation with that mouse button. You can do an infinite number of things! Isn't that the greatest?

Me: Yeah. That's "great". I suppose. But doesn't that make cut and paste harder, and given your job is writing perl...

Fanboy: Oh. No problem, I downloaded this emulator which allows me to simulate the native X screen inputs so I can use a simple combination of 8 keystrokes and 3 mouse clicks to accomplish what used to take just one double click and one middle click. Isn't that great!?

Me: Not really.

Fanboy: You're just a hater, aren't you?



I joke about the Apple guys really. There are some good uses for the systems, but I'm still not sold on the ipad thing. I've just noticed that their user base is very loyal. Almost fanatically so. I'll use pretty much whatever works for what I'm doing. Most people will. The Apple guys will spend enormous amounts of effort to find ways to use their Apple's to do things that they aren't well suited for, pretty much just to have an Apple on their desk. It's hard not to conclude that it really is just about the logo.

I like my iPhone, but when the amount of apps and music I put on my phone start interfering with my ability to use my phone AS a phone, I get a little miffed.

IMHO, the phone functions should override anything else, take the first memory, all that. But when I call my husband and get his voicemail and all he hears is an incessant tapping and me cursing in the background because my phone is lagging out and it won't hang up, that's ****** up. And embarrassing. I'm glad it happened to my husband's voicemail and not my boss.

The same could be said for any company. Google has fanboys, as does Microsoft. There's just more hype around Apple products, that's really the only reason people notice it more.

But yes, it's annoying.