Comments on: Refurbished 4th generation iPod Touch on bargain sale http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/refurbished-4th-generation-ipod-touch-on-bargain-sale/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Chuck http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/refurbished-4th-generation-ipod-touch-on-bargain-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-1219258 Chuck Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:49:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=74374#comment-1219258 There's even a "free" option for connecting a Touch to the Web: google FreedomPop There’s even a “free” option for connecting a Touch to the Web: google FreedomPop

]]> By: Frank Lowney http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/refurbished-4th-generation-ipod-touch-on-bargain-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-1219233 Frank Lowney Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:51:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=74374#comment-1219233 I don't know what makes Apple more reprehensible than its peers in the eBook/eReader business. For example, I read today in the Chronicle of Higher Education about eBooks being used in data mining and analytics (modern euphemisms for spying). The article cites specifics in connection with Amazon and CourseSmart. It's my understanding that Apple actively works against such data mining, Amazon, Google et. al. extract their pound of flesh in the form of data whereas Apple asks you to pay a bit more. There is no free lunch. Fortunately, we get to make a (preferably informed) choice as to how we pay: your privacy or your coin. The Chronicle piece: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/now-e-textbooks-can-report-back-on-students-reading-habits/40928?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en I don’t know what makes Apple more reprehensible than its peers in the eBook/eReader business. For example, I read today in the Chronicle of Higher Education about eBooks being used in data mining and analytics (modern euphemisms for spying). The article cites specifics in connection with Amazon and CourseSmart. It’s my understanding that Apple actively works against such data mining,

Amazon, Google et. al. extract their pound of flesh in the form of data whereas Apple asks you to pay a bit more. There is no free lunch. Fortunately, we get to make a (preferably informed) choice as to how we pay: your privacy or your coin.

The Chronicle piece: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/now-e-textbooks-can-report-back-on-students-reading-habits/40928?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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