Apple has introduced iBooks (I feel like I’ve heard that name before…). The home interface for iBooks is very comparable to the Classics app. The reading interface looks very pleasant, using a two-page layout when in landscape mode and one-page when in portrait. Books will be purchasable through an online store, and use the ePub standard for e-books (whereas the Amazon Kindle use a proprietary format).
Luscious. Wil Shipley will be flattered. I don’t think this device is for me, being too heavily titled towards consumption. I’m probably wrong. Now Apple, please fix your desktop apps (Mail, iCal) to be as good as the versions on here look.
The device *is* for you - for when you are consuming. Stick it in your stack of devices. You’ve got plenty of other shiny boxes for making stuff.
Have 3, or 6, lying around the house. Wander by, pick one up and check some stuff, put it down and wander off. The personal device will be ubiquitous, and then it will be purely the experience that becomes personal. That moment when you’re watching that thing will belong to you, not to the object you’re watching it on.
