Comments on: A thought on Apple’s iPad https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/a-thought-on-apples-ipad/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Soronel Haetir https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/a-thought-on-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-82560 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:38:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15800#comment-82560 One thing I see WRT these devices, unlike digital music players, print publishers are not yet in the position of having their traditional market implode. They just don’t feel the squeeze of everyone stealing their product because electronic media simply is not the same. And thus you have a discount for e-text, but not nearly what it needs to be for such devices to really take off and you have the TTS disabling when you do have e-text. Newspapers and magazines on the other hand seem like they would be a much better niche to attempt getting people to convert, and possibly some specialty areas such as law. But I just don’t see traditional print being sunk any time soon, perhaps when a direct neural interface is invented.

]]> By: Bumper https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/a-thought-on-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-82542 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:07:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15800#comment-82542 From the Apple iPad Tech Specs webpage:

Accessibility
Support for playback of closed-captioned content
VoiceOver screen reader
Full-screen zoom magnification
White on black display
Mono audio

Very similar to OS X and appears to provide the features demanded of the Kindle.

]]> By: Carter https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/a-thought-on-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-82536 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:07:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15800#comment-82536 Free distribution through government agencies to the handicapped. Perhaps accomplished via congressional earmark.

]]> By: Bumper https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/a-thought-on-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-82534 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:39:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15800#comment-82534 While I haven’t made the switch to an iPhone, I do know that OS X already has a great deal of accessibility built in. Plus, as I have commented here before, the Kindle’s accessibility or lack thereof had little to do with Amazon getting sued. They were just a big convenient headline-getting target. Oh wait, Target has already been sued by these same groups.

]]> By: A.W. https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/01/a-thought-on-apples-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-82531 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:45:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=15800#comment-82531 i figure that among the thousands of apps in the iphone, there is one to make it accessible. and supposedly all apps in the iphone work in the ipad.

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