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07-10-2010, 11:21 AM | #78 |
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Would it not be just as honest to say: "Majority of iPad users STILL want to buy an eReader, anyway?"
I wish tech writers would be a little more objective, instead of being blown about by the current fad. "Google Chrome Will Bring End of Desktops PCs" "Google Chrome Will Bring End of Disk Drives" etc. Google Chrome won't end anything, and will end up taking only a very small percentage of the market. They used to go on and on about how Java would end all other software languages, too. I expect a real journalist to recognize hype for what it is, not fall for it before everyone else. Last edited by ThomasMc; 07-10-2010 at 11:26 AM. |
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I do wish we knew what percentage of those iPad owners were considering getting an eReader BEFORE they owned an iPad. |
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The computer I used at work was about the size of a large refrigerator, had a megabyte of RAM, and cost a quarter of a million dollars. The hard drive (which was a separate unit) was two feet square, three feet tall, and held an impressive 50 MB of data. My terminal communicated with the system at a mind blowing 9,600 bps! Whew, it made my head spin, just to think about it Last edited by ThomasMc; 07-10-2010 at 12:08 PM. |
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Looks like Apple will be a big ebook player, there is no question about that. They could also have asked something like: "when an EInk dedicated Ereader costs $50, might you be interested then for the superior screen reading?"
Price is huge and this market shifts everyday. Apple is not in any position to dominate this market (like it did music), there are too many big players with billions of their own competing. -bvl |
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The first computers I used had amber displays, too. I owned an actual word processor as well, one with pathetic two-line display, lol.
With statistics, I just take 'em for what they are -- interesting, but not necessarily reliable. Shrug. Whatever other people's preferences, I know what works for me. As long as I can get hold of the devices I want, I'm happy. I'm not going to waste emotions on something as trivial as stats. |
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In terms of the iPad survey, it was about what I would have expected, but I would hesitate in drawing too much of a conclusion from the eReader % numbers. The main reason is that the iPad users at this point are mostly early adopters, which means that the still-buy-eReader % is going to be substantially higher than for the later iPad (and eventual competitive slates) population as a whole. Early adopters tend to buy more stuff, and be more open to buying more stuff, it's what they do. I think that despite the problems with the battery life and reading in sunlight, the iPad and similar are going to take a huge chunk out of the market for eReader potential market because:
If what you read is mostly fiction, then color is not the big deal thing, but if you read anything else, magazines, newspapers, text books, picture-books, blogs, etc., it's a big deal. It might even be the case that color eReaders would be an even nicer differentiator from printed media, in that color printing costs are such that it drives the cost of printed books up, whereas if you have a color eReader, it's a nominal incremental cost. Consumers want color, you can hardly find a black'n'white magazine these days, and all the newspaper publishers are switching or have switched to color (even NYT) for ads, and added punch. And once color eReaders (or tablets) are ubiquitous, even fiction will use a lot more color, not just for emphasis, but maybe border themes, pictures for chapter headers, etc. So I think, particularly in the absence of high-volume color eReaders, that for most customers, an iPad sale will mean a lost eReader sale, until the color gap is rectified. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony is off figuring out how to do a tablet and/or get color into its eReader line, maybe a deal with LG (although it must torque them, since they partner more with Samsung), as they're already big color providers in TVs and Games and Computer monitors, the value and market persuasiveness of color has to be well understood by them. The iPads (and competitors) will get thinner and lighter, they'll get easier to read in sunlight (they already beat eInk for reading at night, which I suspect is more important to a lot of us anyway), they'll have longer battery life. eReaders can still do fine in the marketplace, but they will need to get cheaper, and they will need to get to color. |
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Astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, investing .... Just a few examples of subjects that benefit from color photos, graphs and such. They seem plenty "serious" to me. It always surprises me how limited some people's perspective can be, that they think about color and think of nothing but fluff. |
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This thread title might be considered a little deceptive. "No longer want..." implies pretty strongly that all of the people surveyed wanted an eReader before they bought their iPad.
I don't believe that to be the case. |
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OTOH, color IS important for lots of other things. Who would want to look at a book of color photography in black and white? I read that the Kindle is not having the desired impact in the textbook market, and I would guess that color has something to do with that. Lots of graphs and charts and such probably don't come across well in black and white. Some people need one, some need the other, and some need both. That's why my iPad will be arriving tomorrow to go along with my Graphite. Neither one will do the whole job for me. |
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I've been very entertained by the EPD-LCD feud and how the different sides act. The term "serious" is almost always used by EPD proponents as a veiled statement of superiority, now that LCDs are not as easily dismissed outright (which they used to be). The advantage of such statements is that their intentions can easily be denied, turning an accuser's words around to make the accuser seem like a fightmonger. It's a very old game, and it's amazing how effective it still is. Now that I think of it, most of the hostile reactions have been from EPD defenders who are angry at pseudojournalists for writing all those "iPad killing ereaders" articles. Regardless of the truth to those statements, it's easy for most any sensationalist writer to know which camp will react more strongly. |
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