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Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 26, 2010 1:15am PSTToday sees the North American release of Mass Effect 2 and, more importantly, the revival of an old favourite Shacknews tradition--the launch day discussion post. So please, keep your Mass Effect 2 out of Morning Discussion because people are avoiding spoilers, or perhaps live in Europe and the thought of anyone playing ME2 before Friday fills them with a furious rage.
So. Something else, then. Read any good books lately? It's not quite a book but I've been enjoying Judge Anderson: The Psi Files Volume 1, a phonebook sized collection of stories from celebrated British sci-fi comic 2000AD starring Judge Dredd's splendid psychic chum Judge Cassandra Anderson. There's a small exhibition of frequent Anderson artist Arthur Ranson's comic art at Orbital Comics near Leicester Square in London, if you're in the area and fancy seeing some rockin' pictures.
People who have seen the tablet say Apple will market it not just as a way to read news, books and other material, but also a way for companies to charge for all that content.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/technology/26apple.html?ref=business
the apple tablet: the next "IT PRINTS MONEY" like the wii ???
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Given all the factors I've mentioned, I have a tough time seeing this device as the savior of media companies; more likely, it'll be be just another in a long-line of exciting, but ultimately niche products (even several million units sold still counts as niche) that can't be leveraged in a mass way, unlike phones which are much more like commodities not just because of pricing but also because of form factor and existing installed base.
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