Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines – apple tablet – Gizmodo

Can you imagine the paper boy tossing these around? No. But think about this, four years ago Apple made a phone, now it is arguably the best mobile phone on the market and iTunes is clocking up billions of transactions. Not just the model works for Apple but the device and the applications that run on it just keeps getting better.

Now apply that kind of development model to a media tablet. Add Google books with the ubiquitous internet and this might be another iPhone in the making. Of course do we need it? Are there better things we could be doing with our resources and intelligence? Relevant questions but considerations like those have never stopped consumer technology before and they are unlikely to do so in the future.

There’s another consideration. When the day comes and networked information becomes the only way you can get information, will the generous and transparent nature of the information owners continue? In other words, if someone’s personal consumption of information can be monitored and controlled at every point, what’s to prevent it from being stopped or alterred at the whim of some other agency? Call me paranoid…

Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines – apple tablet – Gizmodo.