Years (well, a few decades) ago, when I was much better at Go than I am now and computers were much worse, I used to give the computer a big handicap and still spank it handily. Nowadays, the Go program on my iPhone easily humiliates me when I have the nerve to actually play it -- and I'm the one who needs the handicap.
Not to pile on, but the archived Scorpion web page linked to in your earlier article does not read like the professional, intelligent summary of someone with an IQ of 197 and expertise in multiple esoteric subjects -- it reads like really bad Mary Sue fanfic. I have to give him points for being able to bamboozle CBS and quite a few other news organizations, but seriously?
Isn't it price fixing when you conspire to keep the prices artificially high? Most of the disputes I've seen to date between Apple and its partners are that they want to charge _more_, not less. ..bruce..
I consider the periodic wave of stores about how e-books and e-book readers are going to obsolete regular books to be right up there with the same periodic stories about how application generators are going to eliminate programmers.
The current ergonomics of the physical book have evolved over millennia; e-books are still mostly a fad, or of use in some niche markets. For them to make a serious dent, they have to offer compelling advantages while still providing the same cheap convenience of regular books. I think the technology for that is still a few decades off. ..bruce..
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Years (well, a few decades) ago, when I was much better at Go than I am now and computers were much worse, I used to give the computer a big handicap and still spank it handily. Nowadays, the Go program on my iPhone easily humiliates me when I have the nerve to actually play it -- and I'm the one who needs the handicap.
Wait, what?
Not to pile on, but the archived Scorpion web page linked to in your earlier article does not read like the professional, intelligent summary of someone with an IQ of 197 and expertise in multiple esoteric subjects -- it reads like really bad Mary Sue fanfic. I have to give him points for being able to bamboozle CBS and quite a few other news organizations, but seriously?
Price fixing?
Isn't it price fixing when you conspire to keep the prices artificially high? Most of the disputes I've seen to date between Apple and its partners are that they want to charge _more_, not less. ..bruce..
A niche market, maybe....
I consider the periodic wave of stores about how e-books and e-book readers are going to obsolete regular books to be right up there with the same periodic stories about how application generators are going to eliminate programmers.
The current ergonomics of the physical book have evolved over millennia; e-books are still mostly a fad, or of use in some niche markets. For them to make a serious dent, they have to offer compelling advantages while still providing the same cheap convenience of regular books. I think the technology for that is still a few decades off. ..bruce..