I didn’t realise there were too many working environments left where people are allowed to smoke. At least not in places like the U.K, Canada and most parts of the USA.

According to Apple, secondhand smoke contamination also voids their warranty. However, in reality I think this whole issue arose in California (where almost all really stupid ideas start, and lawsuits abound). I doubt that this would be a practical problem in countries where political correctness has not spread like a disease and the general population still walks around not wearing facemasks.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11673&tag=nl.e550

Nobody can get high using an Apple product……….

I already own a Sony mp3 player as the sound quality is on a different level from Ipod devices

Whatever Apple releases I agree that it won’t be as simple as competition for Kindle. We’ve had that for years, it’s called the paperback book and it’s ultimately more reliable and cheaper that an e reader.

We have e-book readers without any protection for content.
We have on Internet sites with thousands of scanned or even OCR’ed books (most notorious have more than 150.000 of them).
We have torrents and p2p networks.
Yes, we have even book shop site – where electronic version of fiction novel can be bought even for less than 1$ in 15 formats without protection DRM crap.

That’s why we don’t care much for western content business.

Apple can kiss my back all over – but I don’t buy neither their proprietary devices neither from their proprietary shops. 15 formats and price less then dollar – or I go to pirates.