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...that's just a simple mouse: Apple has waged similar battles with each of its product lines. 2000's G4 Cube desktop computer was released with a touch-sensitive area to turn on the computer, eschewing the power button. The latest MacBook laptops remove buttons from the trackpad entirely; users click either with a tap of the finger or by pressing the entire trackpad down. The first iPod had five buttons; the current iPod Touch and iPhone have just two. Apple's even expanding the battlefield to its stores - the elevator in the Tokyo Apple Store has no buttons...
...media's move to the post-Web world. The biggest change: Apple's app store will let us charge subscriptions for our content. (Of course, we always could charge for subscriptions on the Web, but who'd pay for that experience?) And now, with a rumored 9-inch iPod Touch heading to consumers - an Apple iReader! Linked to Apple's one-click-to-pay App store! - I bet great magazines and newspapers will come up with iterations that you actually will pay for. Once people own gorgeous gadgets, they want to augment them with content. The iPhone and Kindle proved...
From that perspective, it's unfortunate that everything about the Kindle 2 is better than the original. It's sleeker, more pleasant to touch and easier to read (though the screen is the same size), and the battery lasts forever--more than two weeks if you keep the wireless connection off. It also adds a supercool feature called Whispersync, which automatically notes where you left off reading. So if you use more than one Kindle or download the free Kindle reading software to your Apple iPhone, you can move from one device to the other without losing your place...
...doing it instead of being afraid of doing it, then they’re going to have a lot more success. 9.FM: What is the worst dating advice you have ever heard?AB: This book called “The Rules” for women. Don’t touch it; just burn it. Anything that smacks of an absolute rule is not necessarily bound to serve you. You want to use your own best judgment according to every situation that arises. The principle is the middle path. 10. FM: Feel free to decline answering this one: Do you have...
...We’ve been in touch with proctors to tell them to be aware of any shenanigans the night before housing day,” Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 warned in a recent interview...