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He hears the wolves howling and points and picks the moon, which is the biggest, shiniest object in the sky, as the explanation. It's a bit of sensationalist journalism, pick an easy target and write a fiction about it.

The large screen devices are dedicated devices for professionals. The ipad is a mass market device for consuming random media. The two markets intersect only very slightly. His argument is invalid.

My opinion is that both these devices are using relatively new technology, not e-ink's proven technology that has been in the Kindle for a long time. So they have some production and cost problems, which is normal for new things.