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> Alex;
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> It looks to me like Apple are having another crack at it, and I don't
> see why they should fail...
I do. But then I also thought that terrible puck-mouse should fail and there
too Jobs saying it was great weighed heavier than the cramps in the fingers
of the users. It's too little, too late and too expensive. You could read
books on it, except real books are cheaper than ebooks and more convenient.
You could play games on it, except the iPhone store doesn't have anything
like the PSP or DS's library. You could browse the web on it, except your
laptop also supports flash, java, etc. You could use it as a portable music
player except it's far too large for that. You could run software on it, but
I'm sure Apple will lock that down so only people approved by them and who
develop on another Mac can write this, then only distribute what Apple
likes. On top of that the whole thing is more expensive than many more
full-featured and powerful laptops... on which you could run anything you
liked or made. I just read you can also use it as a "digital picture frame"
but for that you need a dock. I suppose that's a real feature but does that
really compete with simply drawing pictures and pinning them to the wall?
I think it's quite obvious that it *should* fail and somewhat depressing
that it won't.
Kas..
Received on Thu Jan 28 2010 - 12:10:32 GMT