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Originally Posted by murraypaul
As an aside, the overwhelming success of the Wii came as a huge shock to fans of the XBox and PlayStation systems. How could people be buying this silly little populist device that wasn't anywhere near as good for gaming?
They comforted themselves by decided that the Wii was just for 'casual' gamers, and 'real' gamers would still prefer the 'serious' systems.
Cross out gamers and write in readers and that is exactly the defensive response being seen to the success of the iPad.
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But still, last month XBox has been the most sold unit. If you'd use this analogy, sales figures of iPad and, let's say, Kindle DX, would be relatively close. I don't think, that's the case.
And in your analogy, XBox has been the real surprise. Sony and Nintendo had been well established in video games for decades. XBox had been the underdog and no one took them seriously. For maybe 3 years everybody had been joking about Microsoft. Well, with 80% profit decline (at some stage), I guess Sony isn't joking anymore.
Personally, I'm totally relaxed, whatever may happen.
I couldn't do with iPad as my sole unit. I already have to charge the battery at least once per day. My ePaper readers I have to charge maybe once per week. If I'd add reading to my iPad activities, I'd have to charge even more often.
But this would be easy to solve. Today I have 2 units with me. A few days ago, it has been iPad and Kindle DX Graphite.
Would ePaper units disappear, in the worst case scenario I'd have to take 2 iPads. Or I'd have to find a solution for exchanging the battery.
I can read on iPad without any problems. I don't care about ePaper, LCD or whatever. I've read on far "worse" displays: Pocket PCs, Palm Pilots, BlackBerrys, iPhone, ...
For me, it's really all about conserving the battery. When on a trip, I don't have time to charge any unit for hours. And I don't want to carry external battery packs with me.