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Originally Posted by harryE123
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.
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Wow!!! Just because you have followed a forum for four years doesn't mean anything.
Four years is a very short time to come up with ideas, do research and development, raise funding, build plants, do the engineering, marketing, and then sell a new product.
Yet you want a lot of changes to have happened in that short time. That takes a number of product cycles with all of those things involved each time. I just don't see that as reasonable. You talk about this being an immature technology and PCs being a mature one. Yet, how long do you think that it took for that technology to mature?