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Nebulas and iPads
tech failure

Surfacing to say two things, since I need a break.



Jack, the Giant Killer.

He got his cred the hard way, though, and the crowing didn't start until AFTER the deed was done. Maybe the iPeed and the Droid should take note?

I already agreed with you once, I agree again!

In no way do a need a huge, not-as-cool iphone.

I don't believe I've ever commented to your journal, but I have to say that I would be tickled to death to see The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland chosen for the Norton award. There is no way to describe how highly I think of it without gushing like a schoolgirl and embarrassing us both to no end. People with more SFWA cred than me: go vote that sucker in!

I was hoping for a challenger to Cintiq. Cuz you know, there's tablets for computers for artists, and silly me, I thought that would be a good market to keep in mind. But no, a closed system running apps from the app store. Yay.

And no stylus, which probably would have sold it for me. The fact is, there is no way in which this is an active device for creating content--only for consuming it.

I suspect that the iPad is going for the netbook market, but that will all depend on what the price is.

I haven't been following this, but my boyfriend has and according to him it STARTS at $200 more than a Netbook and has much less memory. If that's the case I don't see how that's any competition. Seems like Apple's trying to create something for a market that doesn't exist.

At the moment, it's way high. And doesn't do a lot of the things a netbook does.

I also don't think I have much use for the iPad, as least in its current incarnation. But I haven't heard anyone say it's going to OMG destroy publishing; I've been hearing it's going to OMG save publishing. Which I don't think is true either, but still, that's the meme I've been seeing.

I might be reacting to the long twitter debate I had on the subject that made me very cranky.


Putting your book up for Weekly Book Promotion - I'm doing these more often since I got Hemmingson's book out by May (and the Bible book out at the end of the year and your advance sooner).

I linked that post in my LJ. :D