A message from Cory Doctorows desk - really worth reading. "I was a comic-book kid, and I'm a comic-book grownup, and the thing that made comics for me was sharing them. If there was ever a medium that relied on kids swapping their purchases around to build an audience, it was comics. And the used market for comics! It was -- and is -- huge, and vital. [...] They take away the right to give, sell or loan your comics. What an improvement. Way to take the joyous, marvellous sharing and bonding experience of comic reading and turn it into a passive, lonely undertaking that isolates, rather than unites. Nice one, Misney."
How did we get to the point where a product like an iWhatever including the surrounding tight coupled online stores is considered being the best marketing idea ever? I doubt that the iPad will have the same app store impact as the iPhone - I would use it as a quick and easy terminal for web reading only. The real problem of web pages is: You can't really read them in bed. And thats the problem the iPad solves. fra link: http://tinyurl.com/ybuqc7g (BoingBoing)