Time to drink your gin-and-tonic-ah

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

2, although it says more about the economies of scale permitted by iTunes dominating the downloadable media delivery systems than it does about Apple hardware quality. But that's probably what you meant.

Good point -- after all, Microsoft's dominance of operating systems has sure made that a crash-free, bug-free experience.

What I meant was that Apple has been very good at making the software work on the hardware.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

It's about 2" bigger than the kindle each way - that's quite a bit of extra bulk. I'm happy for the extra bulk if I can really use it for doing things like taking notes at a meeting, so it is replacing a laptop, but I'm not going to accept the bulk if I'm just using it to read and generally entertain myself.

The only way it could replace a laptop would be if it were...another laptop. It won't have the memory, processing speed, or storage to replace a laptop.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

As a Kindle substitute, it depends on relative eyestrain, but will kill Kindle for general interest magazine/newspaper subscription.

Why? You can get those subscriptions on Kindle right now, with no monthly data plan.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Even better than hearing lawyers whine at a deposition about my not permitting a lunch break: hearing them whine 2 tables over at dinner (w/o seeing me) about my not permitting a lunch break at today's deposition.

You sir, are an asshole.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

economies of scale

I don't think you know what this means.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Given the generally low quality of streaming video, is the extra screen size really worth the additional risk of going to jail for watching pron on one of these things on an airplane?

As it happens, I am watching streaming 30 Rock on my 50 inch plasma. Quality isn't HD, but it's at least normal tv/cd. Seems adequate for a tablet size.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

More important: what will porn look like?

MadTV parody of Ipad from 2006.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Adder

I don't think you know what this means.

What I think it means is that Apple having libraries of millions of songs and thousands of downloaded movies at a ridiculously low marginal delivery cost, and millions of media players in people's hands, permits it to invest millions of dollars in new proprietary encoding and delivery technologies that would not be affordable to a company that moves less content at a higher marginal cost and lower profit, especially media companies that must encode for a plethora of media players with different formats.

If this is not what the term means, educate me. Difficulty: do it without being a prick.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Adder

As it happens, I am watching streaming 30 Rock on my 50 inch plasma. Quality isn't HD, but it's at least normal tv/cd. Seems adequate for a tablet size.

I meant YouPorn, but was trying to be coy about it.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Given the generally low quality of streaming video, is the extra screen size really worth the additional risk of going to jail for watching pron on one of these things on an airplane?

It's illegal to watch "pron" (or porn for that matter ) on an airplane?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Even better than hearing lawyers whine at a deposition about my not permitting a lunch break: hearing them whine 2 tables over at dinner (w/o seeing me) about my not permitting a lunch break at today's deposition.

I always bring a banana.

Are you saying you went all day (9 am - 5 pm) without a lunch break? Or that the dep(o) went from, say, 9 am - 2 pm? The latter is fine. The former is not.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

The only way it could replace a laptop would be if it were...another laptop. It won't have the memory, processing speed, or storage to replace a laptop [eta:] for me.

Good point.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I always bring a banana.

To a "dep". Just in case. Right?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

The only way it could replace a laptop would be if it were...another laptop. It won't have the memory, processing speed, or storage to replace a laptop.

Yes. I was hoping more for a MacBookAirNano than a MaxiPhone

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

What I think it means is that Apple having libraries of millions of songs and thousands of downloaded movies at a ridiculously low marginal delivery cost, and millions of media players in people's hands, permits it to invest millions of dollars in new proprietary encoding and delivery technologies that would not be affordable to a company that moves less content at a higher marginal cost and lower profit, especially media companies that must encode for a plethora of media players with different formats.

If this is not what the term means, educate me. Difficulty: do it without being a prick.

Apparently you have the concept. I'm not sure the facts are right though -- I'm not sure marginal costs decline with size. Then again, I would think the biggest marginal cost is bandwidth, which I have never shopped for in that kind of scale.

The rest of actually delivering content online should be very, very low marginal cost at any reasonable scale.