Now, we don't really know
what to think about this one, considering how many
rumors are swirling about upcoming Apple devices at the moment, but make of it what you will. An online survey currently being conducted by Borders bookstore lists the "Apple
iPAD (large screen reading device)" in one of its questions about e-readers. There along with the Amazon Kindle, the Kindle DX, the Sony Reader and the Plastic Logic Reader is the option to check "I plan to buy an Apple IPAD this year." It's safe to say that there are two options here: either Borders has access to some privileged
Apple tablet / Kindle killer info that we, the wondering masses, do not (and yet is still making blunders like "Blackberry" and "Apple iTouch") -- or they're just assuming that there must be some truth to all the fuss. And hey, who could blame them? Like we said, we're not going to put too much stock in it, but go ahead and hit the read link to take the survey for yourself -- but be forewarned: you're going to have to dish on your opinion of Dan Brown before you get to the good stuff.
[Via
MacLife, thanks AC]
posted August 14th 2009 11:41PM
@D
What about iMate or iMate 300?
iPad is already a registered trademark for a New Zealand house thing...
http://www.ipad.net.nz/
Surveyists put in bogus answers to surveys all of the time, partly to see if the person answering the questions is being truthful or knows the products being mentioned.
I can't believe this actually warranted an article on Engadget! I thought only TUAW did that! ;)
is an ipad a type of sanitary panty liner for women?
I truly don't think Apple would release a dedicated e-reader. It would detract from their iPod Touch/iPhone claims of all-in-one portable goodness. I see an Apple tablet with e-reader functionality, but they wouldn't call it the iPad.
You're pretty much on the money with this comment. Apple doesn't make computer devices that do just one thing. Even the first iPod had other functions built in.
And the e-reader market isn't that big. I love my Kindle, but I don't see a lot of them (or any other e-readers) in the wild. I'm thinking the most marketing you'll see for an e-reader in the next decade is for the Kindle. It's just not a mass-appeal device.
Hell... most people today don't even read books!
Great, now all the old people who call iPods iPads are actually not going to be wholly wrong.
Great I can only read my books on a device that will fail in 3 years.
Yippeee for DRM
I actually took that survey and, while I specifically remember the question, I don't remember any such option as "Apple iPAD." Callin' fake here.
Why is Blackberry a blunder?