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Steve jobs and wasniak came and made these products unusually acceptable to individuals in ways wed never seen before. it was a quantum leap in the way the products developed but now have proliferated. you look at the people who have come after apple, whether with android phones, smart phones, whatever you want to call them or other types of tablet devices. theyve truly broken ground. as early as five or six years ago, people werent really contemplating. he was continuously more than a step ahea...

Acceptable to individuals in ways wed never seen before. it was a quantum leap in the way the products developed but now have proliferated. you look at the people who have come after apple, whether with android phones, smart phones, whatever you want to call them or other types of tablet devices. theyve truly broken ground. as early as five or six years ago, people werent really contemplating. he was continuously more than a step ahead of everybody else in his competitors. it was interesting he ...

Brand is going to stay strong. were going to have the great assets and opportunity of both companies to just really supercharge that and take it to the next level. >> reporter: skype is now used by 170 million people around the world. not just on their computers but on the move on their mobile phones and even on their tablet devices. microsoft wants to tap in to this connected community. but its paying a huge price for a business which isnt even profitable. the price tag on skype looks exorbitan...

>> good to see you, t.j. >> are we talking about the standard tvs, computers, everything? >> were talking a lot. everything from these tablet devices to smartphones, to computers, even the -- even cameras, television sets, tablets. i mean, its a lot of consumer electronic devices that are impacted with whats going on in japan. specifically, two main areas of concern is one is called the nand memory chip. these are memory chips that get inserted into tablets and smartphones like the iphone. and l...

Right now, free for two weeks, i believe and then at? >>guest: a two week trial, and then it is $1 a week after that. or $40 for a year subscription and you can download it from the iphone stone. >>dave: it is just for the ipad. >>guest: just for the ipad. and other tablet devices as they come out, but the type of interaction that we have, and the video, really, it only exists by a device like this. >>dave: it would not translate to anotherup, anyway. thank you for being here and check out "the ...

$30 million into making the daily work, something that will be only be available on ipad devices but rupert, first of all, good to have you. >> thank you very much. >> obviously, this is a very popular device. i mean, there are 15 million of them out there, that could easily double by the end of next year. >> much more than that. >> do you think -- is that why, that the ipad, you see as the future of these devices? >> yes. there are 50 million around the world. naif been rationing it. they only ...

Why we can offer "the daily" for 14 cents a day. >> reporter: there are big questions that remain. who is the target audience, whether consumers will pay for content when theyre used to getting it for free. also, will we see it on other tablet devices? we dont know that yet, but the company maintains that it has a roadmap for the next few years. jesse angelo, editor of "the daily," had this to say. >> we think there will be a giant audience for tablet computing. there are -- by the end of next y...