Ihnatko says Apple tablet could play hero to comic books

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Talk about all things apple including rumoured apple tablet

Dom, haven't been in a comics shop lately, have you?

I'm 58. I buy and read comics. Often, I am the oldest one in the shop.

Often not by a whole lot.

Foo!

Wiki or Google if you don't know why.

The VERY FIRST E-Comic that should come pre-installed on EVERY iTablet is "SHATTER".

Wiki or Google is you don't know why.

Just like the "overhyped, overly glossy" iPhone came out "with a few special features ... that won't necessarily live up to the hype that [cellphone] hopefuls are looking for?"

at this point, i am viewing anyone who pooh-poohs the apple tablet as the same sort of people who did the same thing when the ipod first came out: people with no grasp of the potential of such a device. i am VERY excited about the tablet, and have been following ebook-related technology for a few years now. as we get closer to january, more and more pieces (like this article's topic) clicks into place, and i see a bit more potential, and my mind asplodes. this is going to be HUGE. apple will not make a mistake on this one. they've planned and researched too long.

I do not doubt that Apple's tablet/reading device will be huge... if, that is, they do what I think they're going to do.

Apple are aiming to revolutionise the old print media industry. Just like they did the phone industry. Just like they did the music industry.

Apple's device will be a reader, but it'll be so much more powerful than the surprisingly successful Kindle. It'll be able to display full colour newspapers and magazines (and yeah, comic books), but also offer a sort of hybrid with the web. So if you subscribe to the NYT on your Apple reader, you'll be able to read the full paper, and also see exclusive video/audio too.

The device will be suitable for textbooks and regular books too, but it is the periodical industry of newspapers, magazines and comic books that Apple will effectively 'save', with this device. You've probably seen all the stories over the last few years about newspaper firms going bust or struggling for a way to stay relevant. Now think back to the late 90s and it was exactly the same with the record companies. Apple have spotted a very 20th century industry that's ripe for revolution. And unlike Amazon, they'll get it right.

Of course, I may be wrong...

As a comic book reader, I have been smelling this for a while. Comics are a great way to show off the tablet's capabilities. Sure, it will do all other media too.

The tablet won't be a one trick pony. I see it as a piece of hardware that users will adapt to whatever they need (see App store), in the industry that they work. Play this game: see what you would do with a tablet?!

Me: adjust with my own fingers the AU instruments in Logic! hit play, record, rew, ff on logic. In live setting, it is a perfect companion to Mainstage... possibilities are endelss there. Adjusting mixes on the tablet... it is a great tactile interface to the already existing software that needs it. Maybe photographers will find a use for tactile interface, you chip in.

Anyways, the uses will be dictated by the users. Apple just needs to have a few key uses to demonstrate at the event, then its up to us. Yes, it will cost what it will. Since did money was ever an object when buying Apple products?

and read comic books, the occasional browsing...

Comics are for children. And they only tablets children by are the ones they get from their dealers.

There's no market.

You heard it hear first...textbooks of tomorrow. Be ready this is going to be bigger than the iMac, actually a companion....oops said too much