Spoke Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg, re iPad first weekend to learn that Apple forecast 300k units sold in the first day, April 3, including store purchases and pre-orders to be picked up in the stores. My purchase online is not reported yet, and that number will add to the total. The low-balling analysts predict 700-850k sold in the quarter; the highest number is 1.4. The wi-fi version is all that is ready now. The 3G model comes later in April. Connie Guglielmo's observation is that Apple will watch to see which version, and what type of memory package, become popular, and then will respond with a focus on that model. My contribution is that my teenaged daughter is far more eager than my teenaged son to see and possess the iPad. This means: Smash hit with the people who drive the universe, the Teen Angels.
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As long as between half a million and a million people have money to waste on non-essential items like this, I refuse to take seriously any reports of our country having a financial "crisis".
The idea of reading something that looks like a book and being able to flip pages "just like you're reading a real book" is just about the stupidest idea since bottled water.
Don't imagine that's my only complaint with these new things. It's not. My biggest complaint is that they only contribute to the dumbing down of America. People buying "apps" who can't even spell "application". Bah !! Humbug. Are there no workhouses? Are there no sanitoriums?
/grins at lou./
i carry an ipod touch. on it resides 5 terms of physics lectures from stanford. 103 hours of video. if i am stuck somewhere, i open it up and learn. spent an hour tonight learning about the quantum mechanical treatment of polarized photons. in a parking lot at jfk airport. i find that staggering. i have room left for more.
a kindle or an ipad can hold hundreds of books. in your pocket you have a library not a book. like all of shakespeare and plato and aristotle and louis lamour. or a significant portion of the library of congress. and all beethoven, bach, mozart and the rolling stones. ipods can be read from but not at my age.
"flip pages like a book" and reading something that "looks like a book" means to me that the user interface of these devices is converging on the highly refined and highly evolved user interface of books.
[i tried to pitch a master of the universe at a prestigious media investment bank on developing an e book in 1997. he got pissed, said he liked to read in the bath tub and showed me the door.]
I had 200 cd's. that's somewhere between $2 and $4 thousand. i loved 3-4 hundred songs on the cd's and never wanted to listen to the others. it took 5 carrying cases to hold them. still it was an improvement over vinyl. i could reproduce the value to me for under $500 including the ipod and fit it in my shirt pocket with my glasses and a pen.