“Publisher McGraw-Hill may have inadvertently spoiled Apple’s event plans today in an interview (shown below) with CNBC,” Electronista reports. “CEO Terry McGraw told the TV network that the company has worked with Apple for “quite awhile” on making content for the tablet and that “95 percent” of its e-books will be available. It should run a variant of the iPhone OS and will therefore let users transfer content between platforms.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Hey, Terry, a bit of advice: When Steve calls, don’t pick up.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
She doesn’t want to sniff the Tabloid LOL
Good way to start a relationship: show that you’re not to be trusted with anything confidential…
First! HA!
Actually, I didn’t watch cuz I don’t want the spoiler.
foo
What about PlayBoy and Penthouse?
OK. So… not first.
THIRD!! HA!
and Fourth, but who cares?
“I like to smell my Text Books”
Just wow the dirty things I wanna say!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW, First?
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I like to smell my textbooks???? WTF
release the CRAKEN!
Can’t wait for tomorrow! And you like to smell your books?
2min45 sec blah blah blah and then boom! He is getting a call from Steve tonight – if he hasn’t already and being screamed at.
BREAKING NEWS!
McGraw-Hill CEO, Terry Hill found dead by what appears to be some kind of laser burn. Witnesses say he was shot by a star trek-like phaser beam shot from a ten-inch, very thin box-shaped device.
Terry just got McGraw Hill kicked off the keynote tomorrow. I call it now!
He probably felt ignored and want some PR because he didn’t get invited to be on the stage tomorrow. And he probably never will.
that got shut down pretty quick, didn’t it?
No way their CEO is this stupid. I think that Jobs is fine with it and that it is meant to lower expectations. He gave nothing away with this. We’re all expecting a tablet that can act as an e-reader.
Now, if he spilled something on how we interact with the tablet or some great new feature that no one sees coming, then I’d be surprised.
Of course this thing is “based” on the iPhone OS. That doesn’t mean it’s just a big iPhone. If you’re Apple, you wouldn’t waste R&D;resources reinventing the OS that already works great in a smaller form factor.
But you could surely add things to it, and that’s what I’m wetting my pants over in anticipation.
I’d like to smell her textbook.
Ok, Terry, you’ll be having 0 textbooks on the tablet now.
McGraw-Hill content may be conspicuously absent from the presentation tomorrow….
I myself cannot smell Erin’s textbook. But she uses Evian skin cream, and sometimes she wears L’Air du Temps…
But not today.
That seems definitive regarding the existence of the tablet, and not at all surprising given the consistency of Apple tablet speculation and information from “sources” over the last couple of months.
Still, it does seem a little like opening a present on Christmas Eve.
I would LMAO if Steve said: “McGraw-Hill publications coming soon.” Blame it on “negotiations.”
@Grue
“I like to smell my Text Books”
They’ll be an app for that.
Disappointed, not happy. If the tablet was more a desktop, you could code on it. If it’s more an iPhone, you’re limited.
I totally smell my new books. Love it.
MDN Magic Word: Personal. Wow.