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Old 11-13-2007, 05:29 PM   #102
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Originally Posted by porkupan View Post
The way the consumer electronic manufacturing world works seems to point in the opposite direction. Once the product has been released, 90% of the resources are immediately pulled out, the ones left directed to concentrate on small bug fixes and DRM improvements. The major resources are thrown into the next generation, whenever that may come out.
This certainly describes Sony's approach to e-book readers. Bookeen might be different because (a) their only business is e-books and (b) their next generation device is likely to be Vizplex with a larger screen (so most of the software may apply to both devices).
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