Libraryman
Jan 27th, 2010
Jan 27th, 2010
iPad Launch and Libraries: Its not about the iPad, its about future business and market share
Stats of note for libraries in todays iPad launch slides: Apple stats: “75 million iPhone users”, “iBookstore”, “over 125 million accounts with credit cards”, over 12 billion downloads”…These brief notes say more about what the things Apple is doing to pieces of library business than any hype or buzz ever will.
Yes and no.
We have some differing opinions on iPad in libraries here:
http://blog.8bitlibrary.com/2010/01/28/the-ipad-in-libraries/
Yes and no what, JP? I’m talking about what Apple (and others) want to do with electronic content access and distribution here primarily. The iPad really wasn’t/isn’t anything that new, but it is great marketing and making an impact on how consumers see technology in their lives. It’s great to pick apart and understand the details of the thing, but that is less important than the larger implications, and that’s is what I was after here.
Its hard to have a discussion that covers what it needs to in comments though. Wish we were all sitting around a dinner table instead!