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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Yes, trend is multi purpose device. But, selling lots of multipurpose device don't prevent selling dedicated devices. Just mean selling less of them.
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In the short term, this seems to be the case, as indicated by large overlaps of Kindle and iPad owners.
Long term might be a different issue, it's very hard to say. Single-purpose devices do persist far longer than many people presume, but this relies on them offering real advantages to the users. It also does require some discipline on the part of the vendor -- which may not be easy to maintain when, for example, a large pool of users push the capabilities of the device (e.g. hackers buying Nook Colors with the intent of using them as cheap 7" Android tablets).
I do expect epaper devices to have an edge in terms of readability, power usage, size and weight for many years, and don't expect Pixel Qi to produce the optimal solution. Even if they do manage to ship it in a product.
