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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships,” he told me, something that mobile phone companies have been practicing for years. Apple’s tablet could be the first major computing device aside from today’s smartphones to move towards such a service-based model.
"..the biggest question, at least in my mind, is what Apple intends to do for new music. Will it automatically allow any purchased track to be streamed for free? Will it offer a subscription plan for streaming of music that’s not currently in a user’s collection?"
"I found an old Hewlett-Packard slate computer under my desk and showed the width of the screen to try to illustrate what a potential 10-inch device might look like."
"According to Gartner's numbers, Apple completely owns this market, grabbing almost every one of the 4.2 billion dollars spent on mobile apps in 2009. Based on Gartner's estimates and our own analysis, Apple could hold on to at least two-thirds of the market if current sales trends hold for 2010." {Chris Foresman -Ars Technica]
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