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Friday, July 20, 2007

What if Apple designed an e-book reader

by Earl on July 20, 2007

in Apple Mac, Business

The act of printing, storing and shipping millions of books takes too long for a secret to ever be in a book again.I agree with Seth about the book process taking far too long to successfully contain a secret, but I have to take issue with Seth’s hybrid solution of printing a book without the last three chapters and then releasing those chapters on launch day.  What a butchered solution that would be!I still hold hope for e-books driven by a revolutionary book reader, perhaps with flexible plastic display pages and a user touch interface (like the iPhone) to give it a “semi-book” look and feel.  I’d like to see what type of device Apple would come up with if they set their design engineers to the task of making an e-book reader.

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Apple stock still a bargain.

by Earl on July 20, 2007

in Apple Mac, Business

Apple stock has been on a steep rise the last month but may not be anywhere near the top yet.  ( AAPL Stock Prices the Last Two Years )According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, via Mac Observer, the target price for Apple stock is from $160 to $205, $20 to $60 above current trading.  Munster is estimating 45 million iPhone sold for calendar year 2009 and also believes that AT&T is paying Apple $3 per month for every customer that has an iPhone contract.An interesting statement from Munster; “One thing we learned with the iPod is that when a device is game-changing, the demand will come.”

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