“Apple said it will be making an announcement in New York next week targeting the education market,” Shara Tibken reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“The event will be held Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. EST at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum near New York’s Central Park,” Tibken reports. “Apple didn’t provide further details in its press invitation emailed Wednesday, and the company wasn’t immediately available to comment further.”
Tibken reports, “Last week, All Things Digital… aid former CEO Steve Jobs was involved in the effort in the months prior to his death. That could mean, All Things Digital speculated, the news is a textbooks-on-iPads plan that Jobs famously discussed with biographer Walter Isaacson.”
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I dream of an XCode style environment for authoring e-textbooks…
The Guggenheim Museum, the final building personally overseen by the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great ‘crazy ones’ featured in the ad made when His Steveness returned to turn things around. Good work, Apple PR!
Well, I’m not good at second-guessing but the choice of place suggests also arts, museums, etc being made available virtually via iPad and maybe even ATV2?
I hope they announce their own seach engine so they can take it to Gaagle and then say they bought their own technology company so they can tell Samdung to go fusk themself.
Is that to much to wish for? Oh, I guess you’re right it will also be about books or something nice like that.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum “of Non-Objective Painting” for the … “promotion and encouragement and education in art and the enlightenment of the public.”
It’s within these elusive Elysian Fields that one might find Steve Jobs.
Textbooks, textbooks, yee-haw!
“Siri, do you have a used version?”
“I don’t understand what you’re asking.”
“You know. This intro to cost accounting book is like a hundred and fifty bucks. Do you have someone’s from last semester? Hopefully, with few highlights.”