Apple’s upcoming tablet will be emphasized more on its content. The device combines hardware, software and media on one. Once it’s in your hands, you will get to read lots of content on it. That’s how it’s fun and useful, it’ll be loaded with lots of contents. Unlike Apple’s past mistake such as the Apple TV, just a device that has only hardware and software but no content to consume.
Steve Jobs wanna get publishing houses, magazine companies and textbook publishers to develop interactive books and magazines that make sense on an interactive, multitouch device.
“Some I’ve talked to believe the initial content will be mere translations of text to tablet form. But while the idea of print on the Tablet is enticing, it’s nothing the Kindle or any E-Ink device couldn’t do. The eventual goal is to have publishers create hybridized content that draws from audio, video and interactive graphics in books, magazines and newspapers, where paper layouts would be static. And with release dates for Microsoft’s Courier set to be quite far away and Kindle stuck with relatively static E-Ink, it appears that Apple is moving towards a pole position in distribution of this next-generation print content. First, it’ll get its feet wet with more basic repurposing of the stuff found on dead trees today”
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November 6th, 2009 at 10:07 am
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