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Competitors Gang Up on the Likes of Amazon, Apple: Strange Bedfellows

As usual, a whole lot of words saying precisely .......

....... nothing.

Well done Joel. You did it again...... again.

The eBook Wars: What Publishers Should Do

It can only succeed commercially for publishers with tight copy protection on the eBook extension. Some publishers used to distribute PDF versions on CD with technical books. They soon stopped because of rampant piracy.

Who Will Win the Home Entertainment Battle?

You are so clearly biased against Apple and so much pro Microsoft (praising the failed XBox for example, which is now almost a give-away item, it's so useless).
So, if what you write is wholly nonsense, not a clear vision of trends at all, why do you bother? Don't you have any useful hobbies to occupy your time .... like finding and labelling each of the several voids in your brain?
I believe, upon reading this drivel, that the only way to sum you up is as follows (and you heard it here first).
If you had an intelligent thought in your head, it would die of loneliness.
Write with integrity or don't bother. Shill.

Crop of New Smartphones Will Compete With iPhone

Your article is pointless. Tell us something that is not common knowledge. The more expensive things in life tend to be more easily bought by the more well heeled among us. So what's new? If you cannot appreciate what is now common knowledge - that the iPhone is so very very much more than a smartphone (as it used to be defined pre iPhone) that it is pointless to compare it with anything out there now, gPhone included. If you don't appreciate that simple game-changing fact, and further understand that it will take even the best of the also-rans at least 4 to 5 years to match the iPhone as it is today, then you should become a beet farmer. If you think that the app store is something special already, despite the variability of what's on offer there, don't you realise that there are totally new apps waiting to be conceived and developed that will raise the iPhone's functionality as a handheld computer beyond what it is today and most importantly, new app categories that add totally unexpected functionality to its capabilities as a phone ... and I am not talking about anything we could imagine right now. I refer to altogether new killer apps that add usefulness to telephone or comms functions beyond what we already have today. On day one, the iPhone had visual voicemail - a real boon to anyone who hated guessing who had left messages. It was so good it has been widely copied. Look next for apps and added functions that take us into areas of usefulness that others will find it hard to copy on their platforms. This has been hinted at by SJ and we can expect this kind of differentiating strategy to be implemented on Macs, iPods and iPhones. When you have a scalable OS, an ecosystem and tight integration of concepts and designs, you cannot be copied except in a superficial way ... things that (sort of) seem to be the same but are much more crude in their execution, simplicity and ease of use usw.
Who do I bill for your education?