Apple to upset the tech cart on Wednesday

[Berkut]

I am unsure why you find this so confusing. People post all the time referencing traits about posters that have formed outside the thread or threads actually being posted in.

Isn't that called an ad hominem? 

Are you sure you are a lawyer?

[Barrister]

I am unsure why you find this so confusing. People post all the time referencing traits about posters that have formed outside the thread or threads actually being posted in.

Isn't that called an ad hominem? 

Are you sure you are a lawyer?

Isn't that another ad hominem?

[Barrister]

Someone's going to get fired...

McGraw-Hill outs Apple early: it's a tablet
By Jeff Smykil | Last updated January 26, 2010 5:15 PM
Textbook publisher and overall conglomerate McGraw-Hill outed Apple Tuesday on CNBC's Street Signs, confirming what everyone has known for some time now: Apple is releasing a tablet tomorrow (via MacRumors). CEO Terry McGraw explained that the company has been working with Apple for some time now and will offer 95 percent of its materials on the device that Apple will be announcing tomorrow.

According to the interview, which can be watched on CNBC's site (the Apple portion starts at 2:50), the device will run the iPhone OS, allowing for transferability between existing iPhone OS devices. It makes sense, then, that Apple will also launch some sort of e-book reading application for the iPod touch and iPhone either tomorrow or in the very near future. The interview ended with McGraw sating the tablet will be "really terrific" and that it will open up the higher education and the professional market for Apple.

The interview confirms what we heard last week: one of the markets Apple is aiming for with the tablet is higher education. The information from the CNBC interview is the first to come from a non-anonymous source. Of course, we still don't know all the details, so make sure you tune into our liveblog of Apple's event tomorrow at 10am Pacific Time.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/mcgraw-hill-outs-apple-its-a-tablet.ars

[ulmont]

Someone's going to get fired...

McGraw-Hill outs Apple early: it's a tablet
By Jeff Smykil | Last updated January 26, 2010 5:15 PM
Textbook publisher and overall conglomerate McGraw-Hill outed Apple Tuesday on CNBC's Street Signs, confirming what everyone has known for some time now: Apple is releasing a tablet tomorrow (via MacRumors). CEO Terry McGraw explained that the company has been working with Apple for some time now and will offer 95 percent of its materials on the device that Apple will be announcing tomorrow.

According to the interview, which can be watched on CNBC's site (the Apple portion starts at 2:50), the device will run the iPhone OS, allowing for transferability between existing iPhone OS devices. It makes sense, then, that Apple will also launch some sort of e-book reading application for the iPod touch and iPhone either tomorrow or in the very near future. The interview ended with McGraw sating the tablet will be "really terrific" and that it will open up the higher education and the professional market for Apple.

The interview confirms what we heard last week: one of the markets Apple is aiming for with the tablet is higher education. The information from the CNBC interview is the first to come from a non-anonymous source. Of course, we still don't know all the details, so make sure you tune into our liveblog of Apple's event tomorrow at 10am Pacific Time.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/mcgraw-hill-outs-apple-its-a-tablet.ars

If it runs the iPhone OS, it already has a book-reader:  the Kindle app.

[DisturbedPervert]

That would be pretty cool if in the future they could use something like this to make textbooks in a whole new way using interactive features and multimedia.  A straight electronic text version of a regular book isn't as exciting though. I'd prefer the real thing unless it's much cheaper for the electronic version.

[CountDeMoney]

Sorry iBeeb, your history of spooging over apple for the last year and more will not be ignored because you aren't going to buy the latest iThingy the day after it comes out.

iBeeb

[Monoriu]

Yesterday morning, my wife forgot to bring her iphone to work.  So I brought it with me to hand it back to her over lunch.  It so happened that I had non-stop meetings, and someone called her.  My own (4 year old, gift) mobile is on permanent silent mode, so I never in a million years would imagine that a phone in my pocket would ring during a meeting. 

The phone was ringing, people were looking at me, and I didn't know how to interact with the damn thing.  I took it out, and asked Random_dude next to me if he knew how to switch it off.  Mission accomplished in 2 seconds. 

15 years ago when I studied business in university, Apple was considered a basket case.  Doomed.  It was an example of how not to run a company.  Now, everybody owns iphones.  Unbelievable. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Someone's going to get fired...

deliberate teaser.

my 2c: e-book reader w/o electronic ink or equivalent fails.

[CountDeMoney]

I still prefer the old Soviet-era technology eBooks:  the ones made of paper.

[Jaron]

That's because you're a relic. Get with the times, brah.

[Josquius]

So it is an ibook.
Should have expected that one given I've been blabbing on about ereaders being the ipod of the next few years.

[Grey Fox]

Hopefully, the iBook will be the nails in the coffin of e-paper.

[Jaron]

This morning when I woke up, someone had knocked my tech cart over.

Apple wins again!

[grumbler]

This morning when I woke up, someone had knocked my tech cart over.

Apple wins again!

Damn their cart-tipping hides!

[Grey Fox]

my 2c: e-book reader w/o electronic ink or equivalent fails.

Really?

It's exactly why it will succeed. E-Ink is too slow, can't handle video or color & is a pain to produce.