There are two reasons that the Apple Tablet could fail.
The first is that it won’t allow content sharing; so if you buy a book on your iPhone, you MUST be able to read it on your Apple Tablet. I’m really annoyed that I can’t send my app purchases to someone else when I no longer want it. Sure, it is cheap, but perhaps I don’t want it on my phone anymore and don’t want to use it. Just like a physical book, I should be able to transfer it over to any account I care to send it to.
The second reason is that the standard newspaper interaction is going to be used on the Apple Tablet. The problem with that is that you can’t match the real world newspaper interaction, the usability of the broadsheet is impossible to match in the digital sector. But, here is how you solve that problem.
Instead of matching layout right off the start-up of the device’s newspaper reading interface; whatever the App might be, you create an interface that allows you to read the Headlines just like you would when scanning a newspaper…. headlines, content of headlines, then advertisements. Now, you’ll also have text advertisements [a la AdMob or Google type advertisements; which btw, I don't understand how AdMob hasn't been sued for matching trade dress, but anyway back to what I was saying] at the foot of the front page and each page bottom afterward, and when you click on an interesting Headline, it takes over the page and draws advertisements from the cloud services that power the news reader or from the newspaper’s proprietary interface.
You can then track the clicks, time on page, etc; just like your website.
It has always been the foundation of Apple products, usability. And if it isn’t done right, we’ll have another Microsoft product dissuading consumers from accepting ereaders, tablets, and unfortunately, Apple products.
I still wish I had purchased Apple stock back when I first heard of it as a kid.
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