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Old 01-07-2011, 12:10 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung View Post
People have been buying the Dell Streak, so there clearly are people who are willing to pay for a 5-inch phone.

You might also check for an NYT article that ran a couple of months (?) ago, covering how many people are using their smart phone cameras instead of dedicated devices.

Multiple-use devices aren't for everyone, but neither are dedicated devices.

I'll take a multi-use device as long as I find enough of the features meet my needs. That will vary from device to device. I don't see the point in dismissing whole categories of devices just because they happen to be multi-use; nor would I buy anything just because it's multi-use.

Thing is, we all have preferences. It seems silly, though, to assume that your or my preferences must apply to others.
Unfortunately, the ongoing trends are in support of multi-purpose devices. Take the example of the iPod and iPhone. iPod sales have plateaued or are dropping (depending on which iPod we are talking of) while iPhone sales continue to rise. People did not want to carry an mp3 player AND the phone. Increasingly, people do not want to carry a portable game console AND a phone. And IMHO people do not/would not want to carry an eReader AND a tablet.

Till now, they have been forced to do this because the iPad was the only tablet selling in volume till some time back and it is unwieldy for many and because most tablets have the 3 issues I mentioned in the first post. Provided, tablet makers can solve those issues, eReader sales would fall in favor of tablets.
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