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Originally Posted by gmw
Interest vid', thanks for posting. Actually I think he's probably technically correct. Dedicated ereaders are almost certainly doomed, but it's not going to happen this year.
Why "almost certainly"? For the same reason so few own a dedicated mobile telephone any more - you just can't buy them. Now you can only by a combined phone/camera/video/mp3-player/reader/internet-browser/text-sender/alarm-clock/what-did-I-miss. All I want is a mobile phone, but I can't buy one.
Eventually technology will overtake dedicated ereaders. I think we probably have a few years left of "effectively" dedicated devices, but already some are starting to look more like thin-client computers (anything with an internet browser sufficiently capable is able to be a thin-client computer) than they are simple ereaders.
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I guess I'm in the niche then. All I want my ereader to do is show books, just like all I want my phone to do is make calls and occasionally text. I have no want to be so connected to the world.