"Most of us have never owned an Apple product"
Then you are in the minority. As the iPod is the dominant MP3 player on the market.
So it is not "most of us", but rather a *few* of you. If you look around, you'll see that the rest of us have ipods.
So where are the decent sized ebook readers?
The IRex is close, but seems targeted for business with it's price point.
Apple needs to make a tablet for this purpose. Make it the size of a sheet of paper. Use an acclerometer a la the iPhone to detect rotation. Use multi-touch for the input. Support chm,.doc, html, PDF, rtf.txt. Use Safari to do the rendering and all the file formats above are just supported via plugins to Safari.
In fact Apple could do this quite easily given the technology they have at hand in partnership with Google and tied to the iTunes store. A tablet sized iPhone model with Wifi and bluetooth, with media card slots in addition to flash memory.
It would be sweet.
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"Most of us have never owned an Apple product" Then you are in the minority. As the iPod is the dominant MP3 player on the market. So it is not "most of us", but rather a *few* of you. If you look around, you'll see that the rest of us have ipods.
So to protect against a vampire, hire a vampire? Either way, your financial blood gets drained.
So where are the decent sized ebook readers? The IRex is close, but seems targeted for business with it's price point. Apple needs to make a tablet for this purpose. Make it the size of a sheet of paper. Use an acclerometer a la the iPhone to detect rotation. Use multi-touch for the input. Support chm, .doc, html, PDF, rtf .txt. Use Safari to do the rendering and all the file formats above are just supported via plugins to Safari.
In fact Apple could do this quite easily given the technology they have at hand in partnership with Google and tied to the iTunes store. A tablet sized iPhone model with Wifi and bluetooth, with media card slots in addition to flash memory.
It would be sweet.