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1 edit | Text Book Announcement for iPad .. Gawd, I remember writing a LONG post before the FIRST iPad was released in the economy forum about the iPad eventually being used in hospitals, schools, etc ....by doctors, students, etc. I talked about how seeing the "potential" of a product was important.
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kudos:1 | Ok, back on topic now ...just had to get that off my chest.
iBook2 will be released that focuses on Text Books...
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Apple Set To Dive Deeper Into The Digital Textbook Market
10:13 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Jan 19, 2012
By Shara Tibken
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Apple Inc. (AAPL) is expected Thursday to introduce tools that would help build digital textbooks for devices like the iPad, the latest push by the company to drive demand for its tablet and change the education market.
"Education is deep in our DNA," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of world-wide marketing, at an event Thursday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Schiller noted that education institutions already use more than 1.5 million iPads and have access to more than 20,000 education apps.
At the event, Schiller unveiled iBooks 2, a new textbook experience for iPad. "These are beautiful books. Interactive, gorgeous, fun, engaging. Kids are really going to love to learn with textbooks in iBooks." Apple's push into textbooks is an attempt by the Cupertino, Calif., electronics company to change the type of educational content that exists on the market. It also underscores the importance for tech companies to spur the creation of digital content for their software or devices.
The digital textbook market is young but growing. Only about 6% of education-textbook sales will be digital this year, up from 3% in 2011, according to textbook distributor MBS Direct Digital, but that number is expected to rise to more than 50% by 2020.
As a result, the market already is crowded but has been slow to evolve. Companies like CourseSmart, Kno and Inkling offer tens of thousands of digital textbook titles, with other publishers and education companies working on digitizing content. In addition, Kindle maker Amazon.com Inc. AMZN) has been pursuing the market.
"Finally a mainstream company like Apple is turning its attention to the huge problem of actually reinventing the book," said Matt MacInnis, chief executive of Inkling, in an interview before the event. MacInnis, a former Apple employee, started Inkling after noticing students considered technology and textbooks to be rivals.
"By focusing everyone's attention on this issue, we're going to hopefully reach a new understanding of what it means to be digital," he added.
McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP), Pearson PLC (PSO, PSON.LN) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are among the education-publishing companies most likely affected by an Apple textbook announcement. The companies have experimented with interactive approaches, such as allowing students to take quizzes as they read and hear audio for foreign-language study, but many digital textbooks have looked a lot like their physical counterparts.
Apple already has made a push into book publishing, launching its iBookstore. And the company has long been active in the education market, with its products used in many classrooms and by offering discounts to teachers and students. It also provides lectures, lessons and other educational content through its iTunes U.
While its existing education offerings have been niche, its iBooks platform, which already contains a small number of textbooks, could help it gain scale--if more schools are willing to buy Apple devices.
Apple's textbook plans could spur more interest in the iPad, which already is one of Apple's best-selling products. The company currently dominates the tablet market--holding more than 70% market share, according to tech research firm Gartner Inc.--but the iPad is facing increasing competition from Google Inc. (GOOG) Android devices and an eventual Windows 8 release from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
The company's new initiative follows up on the ambitions of its late co-founder, Steve Jobs, who had long aimed to reform education with technology. More recently, Jobs had set his sights on the textbook market, envisioning lowering the cost of textbooks by distributing them on the iPad, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
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DeeCPremium
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I found this:
»www.imore.com/2012/01/19/ibooks-···-market/ |
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said by DeeC:Gawd, I remember writing a LONG post before the FIRST iPad was released in the economy forum about the iPad eventually being used in hospitals, schools, etc ....by doctors, students, etc. I talked about how seeing the "potential" of a product was important.
I was literally "laughed at", made fun of, and joked at by members in the economy forum. Some said Apple was going nowhere ...the competition would kill them.....and boy were they so wrong. It's good to follow your own instincts, thoughts.
Hi Rick and Drew! How are you?
Go Apple!
Many people were wrong about the iPad in many forums. I could see the potential back then.
Everyone joked it was a large iPod touch but it was exactly what I wanted more than a year before the iPad was announce.
My shares more than doubled since as well.
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1 edit | said by Majestik:said by DeeC:Gawd, I remember writing a LONG post before the FIRST iPad was released in the economy forum about the iPad eventually being used in hospitals, schools, etc ....by doctors, students, etc. I talked about how seeing the "potential" of a product was important.
I was literally "laughed at", made fun of, and joked at by members in the economy forum. Some said Apple was going nowhere ...the competition would kill them.....and boy were they so wrong. It's good to follow your own instincts, thoughts.
Hi Rick and Drew! How are you?
Go Apple!
Many people were wrong about the iPad in many forums. I could see the potential back then. Everyone joked it was a large iPod touch but it was exactly what I wanted more than a year before the iPad was announce. My shares more than doubled since as well. We were on the same page ...but some people don't have any vision, which is why they missed Apple's success AGAIN.
I had huge multi thread discussions in another forum about this, like you, BEFORE iPad 1 was released, but many of them said both Apple and the iPad would fail. That was about $200/sh ago, lol.
It feels good ...to have been right, after all the abuse I had taken.
My shares have done exceedingly well also, especially since I still have 2003 shares at $11+/sh ......lol. May cash some of those out soon to do some more renovations  |
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There needs to be better enterprise control for iPads to go into hospitals for more than calendars and note taking during meetings.
HIPAA violations are expensive. The potential exists but the law is there to beat down mobile computing.
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said by DeeC:Gawd, I remember writing a LONG post before the FIRST iPad was released in the economy forum about the iPad eventually being used in hospitals, schools, etc ....by doctors, students, etc. I talked about how seeing the "potential" of a product was important.
Go Apple!
On topic, there is a company here that is called Desire2Learn, it's a fast growing company. Wondering if they can help each other out.
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said by Mike:There needs to be better enterprise control for iPads to go into hospitals for more than calendars and note taking during meetings.
HIPAA violations are expensive. The potential exists but the law is there to beat down mobile computing.
Doctors & Hospitals are already using iPads .....because mine are. I don't think they have full access to patients' records yet, but maybe some do via special security access passwords/codes, etc. Its all about the software as well .... |
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said by J E F F:said by DeeC:Gawd, I remember writing a LONG post before the FIRST iPad was released in the economy forum about the iPad eventually being used in hospitals, schools, etc ....by doctors, students, etc. I talked about how seeing the "potential" of a product was important.
Go Apple!
On topic, there is a company here that is called Desire2Learn, it's a fast growing company. Wondering if they can help each other out. Tell me more  |
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| said by DeeC:said by J E F F:said by DeeC:Gawd, I remember writing a LONG post before the FIRST iPad was released in the economy forum about the iPad eventually being used in hospitals, schools, etc ....by doctors, students, etc. I talked about how seeing the "potential" of a product was important.
Go Apple!
On topic, there is a company here that is called Desire2Learn, it's a fast growing company. Wondering if they can help each other out. Tell me more Started as a small company with 6 or so employee's in 1999. Now they have close to 400. They are in the same office as Google in downtown Kitchener.
»www.desire2learn.com/
Would be nice to see if Apple can locate an office here, would be a great idea. Google and Desire2Learn is located in 'The Tannery District' which used to be one of the largest tannery in the British Empire. A Toronto company bought the old building and renovated it for modern offices, perfect for google. Another company is renovating another old building just up the road, perfect for Apple, assuming that Desire2Learn and Apple could somehow work together. Desire2Learn is strictly education.
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Apple was my first stock purchase when the Roth IRA began. Purchased 1400 back then and left it alone. I though of them growing to be big like Dell.
Then I bought 120 shares when I found out about the iPad.Sold last Fall and bought more Marathon Oil after the company split and about 4000 shares of Beazer Homes and Hovnanian. I was going to use it to remodel but decided to get a HELOC instead.
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DeeCPremium
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kudos:1 | said by Majestik:Apple was my first stock purchase when the Roth IRA began. Purchased 1400 back then and left it alone. I though of them growing to be big like Dell.
Then I bought 120 shares when I found out about the iPad.Sold last Fall and bought more Marathon Oil after the company split and about 4000 shares of Beazer Homes and Hovnanian. I was going to use it to remodel but decided to get a HELOC instead.
You and Coma have more AAPL than anyone I know .....impressive!  |
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Thanks Jeff!  |
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How much was 1400 back then? At $400, that's over half million! |
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said by Mike:There needs to be better enterprise control for iPads to go into hospitals for more than calendars and note taking during meetings.
A variation of cloud computing would work well here. When the device is inside the hospital, connect to some internal cloud of patient information. When outside, don't allow access.
A combination of access to a secure WiFi account and GPS information from location services should be fairly secure. I'm sure a hospital IT guy could easily think of ways to harden it further.
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said by J E F F:How much was 1400 back then? At $400, that's over half million!
1400 x $430 = $602,000.00
1400 shares then, may be 2800 shares now, depending upon if he caught the split |
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DeeCPremium
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Daemon,
I'm no IT guy, but agree that this issue should be easier to resolve than some make it out to be .... Nice post & examples! |
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Probably using Citrix.
There's also the point if a resident on call gets a surgery follow up (let's say I just did orthognathic surgery) and I'm at home, I want access to that data so I can see pre, tx, and post radiographs and notes.
Doesn't help outside so I'd need a computer. Whats the point then?
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| said by Mike:Probably using Citrix.
There's also the point if a resident on call gets a surgery follow up (let's say I just did orthognathic surgery) and I'm at home, I want access to that data so I can see pre, tx, and post radiographs and notes.
Doesn't help outside so I'd need a computer. Whats the point then?
Whatever technology used to secure the computer connection can also be used to secure the iPad's. The iPad is a unique problem because it is mobile so is more easily lost or stolen, but that is also true of laptops.
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