[Macworld]

Post your comments for Report: Apple planning media-related event later this month here

[heisetax]

This would make this a non event for most Mac Users then. No wonder no one else has made a comment.

With Apple's limited iBook hardware usage group, meaning no Macs or PCs allowed, we plan to stay all Kindle for our ebooks. We can use Kindle on all of our Macs, iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone & even our Android smartphones. Most of our library books also come in a Kindle format. Thus we can read them on any of our hardware. Even a Windows PC if we would boot into Windows.

[Michaelz5em]

366 days to speculate...leap year!

[bytesized]

If you are saying there is an opportunity to speculate daily, then you are wrong. This is a leap year and there are 366 possible days to do so Thanks and keep up the good reporting.

[ESB3]

Wouldn't a new year this year (2012) mean 366 chances?

[redgeminipa]

Apple & T-Mobile merger? Just a thought... It could explain another reason T-Mobile didn't get the iPhone yet.

[vulpine]

heisetax, on 02 January 2012 - 05:51 PM, said:

This would make this a non event for most Mac Users then. No wonder no one else has made a comment.

With Apple's limited iBook hardware usage group, meaning no Macs or PCs allowed, we plan to stay all Kindle for our ebooks. We can use Kindle on all of our Macs, iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone & even our Android smartphones. Most of our library books also come in a Kindle format. Thus we can read them on any of our hardware. Even a Windows PC if we would boot into Windows.

I don't know about you, but I've done quite well with my iBook app--I'm reading books not even available for Kindle. Well, they're available, but not from Amazon.

I don't feel like reading a novel sitting up and staring at a big computer screen. I prefer to read away from my desk on a comfortable sofa or in bed. The Kindle device is good for that, but arguing that reading on a PC is anything like wide-spread is almost a laugh.

No, there's no "limited iBook hardware usage group", there's only the complaints of people who want to believe Apple can't do anything right.

[mikemcconnell]

vulpine, on 03 January 2012 - 06:32 AM, said:

heisetax, on 02 January 2012 - 05:51 PM, said:

This would make this a non event for most Mac Users then. No wonder no one else has made a comment.

With Apple's limited iBook hardware usage group, meaning no Macs or PCs allowed, we plan to stay all Kindle for our ebooks. We can use Kindle on all of our Macs, iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone & even our Android smartphones. Most of our library books also come in a Kindle format. Thus we can read them on any of our hardware. Even a Windows PC if we would boot into Windows.

I don't know about you, but I've done quite well with my iBook app--I'm reading books not even available for Kindle. Well, they're available, but not from Amazon.

I don't feel like reading a novel sitting up and staring at a big computer screen. I prefer to read away from my desk on a comfortable sofa or in bed. The Kindle device is good for that, but arguing that reading on a PC is anything like wide-spread is almost a laugh.

No, there's no "limited iBook hardware usage group", there's only the complaints of people who want to believe Apple can't do anything right.

I find that each has it's advantages.

Although I prefer reading on an iPad or my iPod touch, there are times when I'm sitting at my desk and it's nice to read the book on my laptop. That gives an advantage to Kindle. Plus, for whatever reason, I find that the Kindle loads quickly on my iPad, while iBooks can take up to a minute to load.

On the other hand, I like to download ebooks from Project Gutenberg. Using the iPad or touch, I can download directly to either Kindle or iBooks. However, Kindle doesn't synch the books between my two devices, while iBooks will. For me, at least in terms of Gutenberg books, that is the decider right there.

[darrynpeterlowe]

All I want for this year is Apple to release iBook Store in New Zealand... oh and TV show purchases which we still don't have.

[ImranAnwar]

Perhaps Eddy Cue should spend more time fixing the data destroying iCloud sync services.

[johndrake]

ESB3, on 02 January 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

Wouldn't a new year this year (2012) mean 366 chances?

Technically yes, but this story was written on the 2nd so we've already lost those days and now must settle for 363! Ooops now it's the 3rd so we're down to 362!!