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Originally Posted by Talldog
I think you folks are getting a little defensive about the use of the term "serious readers".
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Nah, I've got nothing to defend. I think E-Ink is rubbish, and I think the iPad is largely wasted potential. The things I'm hopeful for and excited about aren't even on the market, and may never be, considering the way companies have marketed newer technologies in the last year or two.
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.