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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
The thing about ebook readers is that much of the technology for producing them is available. Software for rendering high-quality text has been around for a long time. Yes, the displays will be a bit slow to develop, but there are many other areas of development in the reader space that have gone ignored, even though the software and hardware have been around for quite a while. At a fundamental level, they're glorified text viewers...and the newest Sony readers still do not have real italics. That is just pathetic.
Apologists can try to vindicate the lack of development with excuses regarding financial viability, but as a consumer, I don't care.
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Kolenka gives a summary of product development reality not an "apology".
Consumer products and their capabilities have arisen purely from market drivers, so consumers only have themselves to blame if things haven't quite turned out as they wish.
If current solutions don't meet your needs you can do something about it; write some alternative software yourself, or fund a company or team to do it for you. But beware the legal and commercial entaglements that are rife in technology products and services - creating a technical solution is hard but comparatively straightforward compared to being able to actually sell the product.
If instead you only demand your "consumer rights" with everything at the least cost then I fear you will likely become increasingly dissappointed.