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db100 · 11-30-2010, 03:54 PM

When Kindle was first introduced in 2007, Kindle forum only has 50 or so people daily, while Sony Reader forum always crowded with more than 200. But now, everything is reversed: Sony around 50, and Kindle forum owns more than 200.

Why? The reasons are so obvious:

1) Sony's price is very wrong: $249 daily edition just for half month's promotion? Now everyone has to pay $300 for that?

2) Too slow, and too little: How difficulty to add international fonts and let Russian out of hacker job? How difficulty to open SDK to everyone? How difficulty to export handwriting notes?

It looks like people sitting at Sony Plaza are totally isolated from the real world: They have no idea of what other people are doing, and what do we need.

11-30-2010, 03:54 PM	#1
db100 Member Posts: 19 Karma: 52 Join Date: Dec 2006	Glad to see Amazon Kindles gradually overtake Sony Readers When Kindle was first introduced in 2007, Kindle forum only has 50 or so people daily, while Sony Reader forum always crowded with more than 200. But now, everything is reversed: Sony around 50, and Kindle forum owns more than 200. Why? The reasons are so obvious: 1) Sony's price is very wrong: $249 daily edition just for half month's promotion? Now everyone has to pay $300 for that? 2) Too slow, and too little: How difficulty to add international fonts and let Russian out of hacker job? How difficulty to open SDK to everyone? How difficulty to export handwriting notes? It looks like people sitting at Sony Plaza are totally isolated from the real world: They have no idea of what other people are doing, and what do we need.