Comments on: Students willing to pay $500 for iPhones: The e-book hardware and content angles http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/students-willing-to-pay-500-for-iphones-the-e-book-hardware-and-content-angles/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: » Apple iPhone vs. Internet Tablets http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/students-willing-to-pay-500-for-iphones-the-e-book-hardware-and-content-angles/comment-page-1/#comment-443968 » Apple iPhone vs. Internet Tablets Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:45:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6408#comment-443968 [...] Mix the mainstreaming of social software over the past couple years with a device like this and step back. Twitter was just the start. Still, the iPhone might also find use among ebook users (though what we really need is a browser-based book reader) and for other purposes [...] [...] Mix the mainstreaming of social software over the past couple years with a device like this and step back. Twitter was just the start. Still, the iPhone might also find use among ebook users (though what we really need is a browser-based book reader) and for other purposes [...]

]]> By: McQ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/students-willing-to-pay-500-for-iphones-the-e-book-hardware-and-content-angles/comment-page-1/#comment-310372 McQ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:58:14 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6408#comment-310372 The problem with the iPhone is that it is a closed system: It is entirely possible that Apple will not allow *any* of the eBook providers to implement a client that runs on it. Note that this is not (exactly) the T'o'eBable problem -- one provider or many isn't relevant until Apple decides that they want this capability to be available _at_all_. I will not by an iPhone until there is *some* path that allows third party apps to be developed for the device. I'm not worried about the eBook providers stepping up to it, once they can. The problem with the iPhone is that it is a closed system: It is entirely possible that Apple will not allow *any* of the eBook providers to implement a client that runs on it. Note that this is not (exactly) the T’o'eBable problem — one provider or many isn’t relevant until Apple decides that they want this capability to be available _at_all_.

I will not by an iPhone until there is *some* path that allows third party apps to be developed for the device. I’m not worried about the eBook providers stepping up to it, once they can.

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