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All ladies’ sanitary product joking aside, I wonder what Bostonians think about this thing. I mean, haven’t they been listening to iPads for years? iPad Nano, iPad Touch, iPad Shuffle… Anyway, the nerds have rutted themselves on the joy of the day: we are one step closer to living in a Star Trek movie. This is fine by me so long as the new Uhura is there. The Post folk have a nice little roundup that will give you the basic details for now. More to come in the days ahead, I’m sure.
Called iPad, it will play video, music and serve as an eReader, which Jobs announced will be called “iBooks”. As this is our books blog, let’s focus on the latter (for our tech reporter’s full report visit FP).
Looking poised to deliver a huge blow to Amazon’s Kindle product, Jobs did have a word for Jeff Bezos’s group: “Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle. We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”
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January 28th, 2010 at 7:58 am
This does, if nothing else, solve NYT’s paywall issue. People love paying for things on the iPhone that they could get for free from a real computer, so this should be a great success.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:37 am
I agree, Matt. Add in the fact that publishers don’t have to sell wholesale to Apple as they do with Amazon, and we’ve got a winner. “Information” might be free, but “knowledge” is worth paying for.
January 30th, 2010 at 2:08 am
What surprised me the most was the price. I fully expected the new machine to come in over $1,000.
January 30th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Really, Dave? It is, aside from the touch screen, surprisingly lower-tech than your average netbook, and those are normally about $300-350. Cheap for Apple? Yes. Cheap for comparable technology? Heck no.