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Originally Posted by bowerbird
yvan said:
> How many read books on an iPhone? Every PRS owner reads on their reader.
how many people read books, period? (answer: an astonishingly small percentage.)
> Dedicated devices are the best.
for hard-core book-people, maybe.
but once a multi-purpose device
matches your dedicated device,
let's see which one _you_ use...
(because there's no doubt about
which one most people will use.)
and this is why some people miss
the big importance of the iphone,
i.e., that it will have a big base...
-bowerbird
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First of all, this is Mobile Read. Everybody here reads. We
are hard core.
And don't mistake my answers regarding the choice of Apple, I'm a Machead since 1984; I've had a 512K, the second MacIntosh.
I love the iPhone, it's a great technological feat and its interface is nonplus. If it were available in Canada I'd be in the first lineups. Unfortunately some creep outfit bought the rights here to the name iPhone before Apple and it landed up in court. There is no telling when things will be resolved.
That said, I've owned and operated many, many all in one tools, devices and whatnots over the years. They all suffer the same drawbacks, lack of depth in some of their aspects, and because of that they only become part time used; which is what they were built for! Take any of these devices and compare any feature they perform and they lose when compared to a dedicated device. To that standard of comparison the only things that stands up to scrutiny on the iPhone are that incredible interface and MP3 use. The rest can all be done better on dedicated devices.
If we come back to reading, which is what this forum is about, many participants here have begun to suffer from fading eyesight; as I have. Peering for hours on a tiny refresh rate driven screen has become virtually impossible. Eink is here! What a godsend! Give me an iPhone with colo(u)r eink and a bigger screen and I'll be shouting about the place to sell them, and give all other devices away. (my kids love my e-garbage)
BTW, on a personal level, what's the reason for your formating? Do you have something against upper case? Or are you writing on a phone?