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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
A device can not be made relevant to either conversation by virtue of its ability to play Angry Birds.
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Are you sure? If a device that plays Angry Birds, and millions of people buy the device to play Angry birds -- and because they HAVE bought said device, AND it happens to also be an ereader -- THEN it will indeed have an effect on the eInk device market.
The moment I read my first book on my iPhone is the moment I stopped desiring a kindle. I wanted a kindle, but at the time they cost near $300. The iPhone may not have been the perfect ereader -- but I already had one, tried reading on it, and like it very much. At such a point a potential kindle customer was taken off the market.
Since that time the Kindle has dropped to $139 and improved it's screen. However, I'm now using an iPad and enjoy it for many things, including reading. At some point a Kindle might become cheap enough that I'll get it as an EXTRA reading device.
Mind you -- this is not to convince people who prefer eInk that they shouldn't. It's just to demonstrate that multi-function devices will never have to be as good as eInk readers to have an impact on eInk sales.
Now, as it happens, for MY reading use cases, I think my iPad/iPhone are BETTER ereaders than a kindle. I can buy books from any book store, read in the dark (which I do FAR more often than sit in full sunlight to read), read in color, no blinking when switching between pages. It's so easy to get non-kindle books onto my iPad -- and just as easy to get kindle books.
Nope. Now I don't want a kindle because I have something that for MY use cases is better. It just didn't HAVE to be better to impact my desire for a kindle.
Lee