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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Thank you! I think that people just need to have SOMETHING to bitch about.
If you are a tech geek, a tweaker, or any other kind of "teeny-tiny segment" of the ereader market, then realize that this market doesn't exist to cater to your whimsical needs.
It is aimed at people who simply want to take pleasure in reading books. Someone like me who hasn't been in a bookstore in YEARS and has been doing most of her reading on a computer since I'm able to adjust the size of the text to where it is comfortable for me.
I am one of MILLIONS of aging baby boomer's who love to read but it's getting harder & harder to read pbooks.
The current & growing crop of ereaders are allowing me to once again enjoy a life long habit!
There are more than enough of us to keep the ereading markets in business & profitable for years to come. At some point I will probably buy an Ipad like reader so that I can have a multifunction machine.
This is not, does not, should be, have to be an either or scenario. All can exist within the same market and more than likely will do so.
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I am happy that you like your reader but it's offensive to suggest that just because some of us have been reading these forums for more than four years and expected that by then we'd eventually get some device larger than 6" with a very good screen, cross platform standards for ebooks (and not tied to particular vendors), intuitive os's etc. etc. etc. are just bitching for nothing. There have been a large number of people who would agree with me, surely they are not all misguided just because you like your digital reader.
It's close to self evident to anyone following this kind of tech that it hasn't evolved as we hoped for, be it for tablets overtaking them, be it for amazon stifling the market, be it for low margins on these devices because of competition from other gadgets or because of their single purpose nature, etc. etc. It's not like people are "bitching" here about some minor tech point on personal computers which are pretty mature technology, most have very valid, very pertinent points about a very immature technology that's not fitting a lot of people's needs, that need a lot of work to evolve, and that hasn't done so adequately or quickly enough as it once promised too with companies (irex) once market leaders folding (together with their larger screen products) and others (plastic logic) announcing long awaited vapourware.
And now you land from the moon, someone gives you a 1950s b&w tv set and you go, hey what's wrong it, I love watching tv on that. Well, good for you, but that doesn't mean that said tech is where it should be. And no one here has been asking for any futuristic additions to ebook readers, merely better and faster os'es, decent sized screens, and the ability to interchangeably read books on once devices from different vendors. That's hardly a bitchy demand.