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E-Reader Wars Heating Up: Apple May Have Edge with Younger Generations

It is because young people don't read. Also with e-reader the older generations can read easier with out reading glasses. But more affordable models is needed for schools, especially for elementary students. Sometimes these children are carrying up to 30% of their weight with all these text books. Schools and publishers are against it because it will hurt their profits. Every year students must buy new books even though only a few words were changed so that they cannot buy used. If all the students in the world can use a e-reader then the cost of these devices will drop quickly and education will also be much cheaper.

The Mac vs. PC Debate Was Never Clearer

Simply put it PC people don't get it.

Apple's iPhone: Is 10 Million Units In 2008 Realistic?

Why does all these people still don't understand that the US market will be the smaller part of the whole iphone market. Look at the Razor, what % is sold in the US compare to the world, look at those expensive smartphone and what is the US market compare to the world? Also the iPhone is not expensive compares to other high end phone. The so call Verizon iphone killer which is the LG Prada phone retails for USD900. The reason why US consumer think all these phones are expensive is because they don"t realize that their carrier makes all the money back through their schemes and contract locks and phone locks. It only seem cheap in the US but everyone pays, always. That is also why dont gets the latest phones.

iPhone: Apple Making All the Wrong Moves

I think the key whether Apple will succeed or not in the long term as a phone maker is dependant on Apple's ability to bring the ease of use user interface from their other products to the mobile platform and to create seamless conectivity and synergy with computers, OSX or Windows. All the mobile devices that are available today has lousy user interface and doesn't work well with computers. This is on the top of the list of Apple as I think one of the first statement Steve Job made when introducing the iphone is about how bad the user interfaces are in todays mobile devices. If this is achieve then Apple's future as a mobile device maker will be bright. At lease even if this doesn't happen, the mobile devices makers has already made a big effort in bring a competitive product out the next six months which has greatly accelerated the development and advancement of mobile devices. The user will be the greatest winner. As they say a little competition doesn't hurt.

iPhone: Apple Making All the Wrong Moves

So is Motorola, but its top phones has been launched oversea up to a year being available in the US. In the overall scheme of things, the US mobile phone market is not a leader.

iPhone: Apple Making All the Wrong Moves

Typical Typical American centric arrogance that if it doesn't work in US it doesn't work anywhere else. If you consider that most phone companies launches and sell most of their high end phone in other parts of the world and then launching the phone in US a year or two later, it is more amazing that iPhone is launch in the US first. Maybe because it will take time to build up the supply to satisfy the world market or waiting for the 3.5G version to be ready. Another reason is probably Apple can generate a lot more free media promotion then launching the iPhone overseas.