It's an example of how Apple could have opened up an API in another area, but didn't - which crushed sales for other epub reader apps. I didn't say Apple was the only one with closed data; certainly Amazon doesn't want you to use any other software to read their books. The point is that unlike ebooks, the approach the…

"This isnt a solution, it is an excuse" aaaand you've proved my first point - it's YAR for folks to hate on Apple. Regardless, you say excuse, I say opportunity for developers. An increased opportunity, if you want to split hairs.

Go ask the folks who wrote Classics how sales went after Apple started selling eBooks that are only readable with the iBooks app. Now imagine how those developers would have felt if Apple had instead developed an API for accessing that DRMed content, and left it up to the customer to select their own reading app.…

So instead of locking down functionality and locking out developers, Apple has chosen instead to build an API and open another path for developers to profit. Yet another reason for folks to hate Apple.

10. Be as innovative as the first tablet running Windows was back in 1992.

The switch to the agency model led to the publishers making 70% profit off of each book sold, as opposed to 30% in the old model. This is how the publishers increased profits in general. If they switch back to publishers only getting 30%, profits will drop. That is why I predict that if profits drop, they'll also go…

The other thing to remember is that the number of books being published during Amazon's 90% market share days was dropping off. Consumers paid less per book for a more limited selection of titles. After the switch to the agency model the number of titles being published increased, but so did the prices to consumers.…

I've never met the author, but I immediately recognized him as a member of the "That One Guy" tribe. You know, That One Guy you met at a con telling you why your favorite fictional franchise sucks, or on line outside a movie spoiling the ending, or in the Apple Store arguing with the Genii about what makes UNIX…

I think Keanu gets considered for these roles because he is already half in the uncanny valley.

The well-known Hollywood meddling is exactly what I dread. Remember the talk about Jospeh Gordon-Levitt as Tetsuo and Leonardo DiCaprio as Kaneda in the live-action Akira?

From your lips to God's ears.

Counting down to someone in Hollywood thinking Keanu would be a perfect Hiro Protagonist in 3... 2... 1...

Apple will put out a full product - in four-five months, when iOS 6 is released. Until then, comparing a five year old app to an app still being written, well, it's like sitting around in 2010 complaining about how unplayable Skyrim is.

And yet, only 7% of Android phones have ICS on them since the OS was released six months ago. Matter of fact, Google claims that the number of phones running Gingerbread is increasing faster than the number of phones running ICS.

When I watch episodes like last night's where the writers had Carter beating a remote control on the deck like a gorilla with a suitcase, I try not to remember that he was a U.S. Marshal when he arrived in Eureka - a job that requires high grades, honors work, and some graduate study. Not only that, he was considered…

Just read the article. The author clearly states "those are delightfully idiotic mistakes to have gone live." Live, as in current release, and therefore worthy of scorn.

Interestingly enough, there's evidence over the years to support the opposite viewpoint:

I'm curious to see if Google includes turn-by-turn navigation capabilities if they release their own map app for iOS. Google currently blocks that API in the Apple-coded map.app.

I discovered Mr. Bradbury as a fifth grader when I checked out "R is for Rocket" based on the title alone. By that weekend I'd read the collection twice, and couldn't wait for library period the next week so I could get more. I was hooked for life.

D'oh! Yes, I do mean Allison. I'd been thinking about the Beverly/Allison possession plot line and got my mix typed up. Thanks!