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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
I doubt iPad or other tablets will kill dedicated devices. They're for a niche market, but niche markets still get served, as long as there's reasonable money to be made.
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Personally, I'd always go for the highly specialised product.
But of course such specialist units only will be available, if there's a certain market potential.
Amazon for example permanently will analyse, whether the Kindle app on 25 different systems/plattforms would be profitable enough or whether they need Kindles as references in parallel.
But the problem I see: Often, the way better product still disappears.
In the US you may never have heard of Video2000. It has died even before Betamax, although widely considered by experts as the superior product.
And even Betamax by many has been considered superior to VHS.
But obviously clever marketing and maybe smarter contracts with the studios did change the market.
And so the question to me really is, whether the majority (or at least a big enough minority) of customers actually compares features or prices. Or whether the momentary hype draws a picture, that's far from reality yet. But customers still may believe it and follow what they consider the general trend...