If you question it, then you aren't who he is talking to.
For the record, it's not like he's claiming ownership of the word geek and assigning it a strict definition that involves owning an iOS device. He's saying it's designed for geeks like "us". A cross section of both "like Marco", and a geek.
Not exactly something to question.
> Why not just publish it as a downloadable PDF or EPUB or something along those lines ?
Because charging for it becomes much harder, it requires users to do more work, and it bypasses the hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts with credit cards already attached, something that has already been demonstrated to shoot up subscription rates.
If you question it, then you aren't who he is talking to.
For the record, it's not like he's claiming ownership of the word geek and assigning it a strict definition that involves owning an iOS device. He's saying it's designed for geeks like "us". A cross section of both "like Marco", and a geek.
Not exactly something to question.
> Why not just publish it as a downloadable PDF or EPUB or something along those lines ?
Because charging for it becomes much harder, it requires users to do more work, and it bypasses the hundreds of millions of iTunes accounts with credit cards already attached, something that has already been demonstrated to shoot up subscription rates.