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   "Tim Bruening"  wrote in message   
   news:4BCEA8A0.C7F25E99@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...   
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   > Your Name wrote:   
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   > > "Merrick Baldelli"  wrote in message   
   > > news:ol2rd5t2jtsa5hgrlkoot0qr2ui6ki1tml@4ax.com...   
   > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:14:44 +1300, "Your Name"    
   > > > wrote:   
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   > > > >Wait until Apple releases its iPhone-based tablet next year.  :-)   
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   > > > This has been talked about for the better part of a decade.   
   > > > I'll believe it when I see it.   
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   > > It has been in development for a while, but with the popularity of the   
   iPod   
   > > and especially the iPod Touch / iPhone, the time is right for the   
   "iBook" /   
   > > "iTablet". The (rumoured) plan is that it will be to ebooks what the   
   iPod   
   > > has been to music and the iPhone to the mobile phone. The "experts" are   
   all   
   > > pointing to a release early next year.  :-)   
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   > The trees will jump up and down for joy!  No more paper!   
      
   Yeah, right. They've been saying that for decades.   
      
   Even if (extremely unlikely) the iPad and clones meant an end to paper books   
   / magazines / newspapers, you'll probably find that it causes even more   
   trees to be chooped down to be burnt to generate electricity or something   
   ... just like so-called "green" cars are actually no better, maybe even   
   worse, for the environment than petrol / diesel cars are.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)