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Some people are never satisfied.
When I first learned of the SONY Reader, many comments of the tech blog were along the lines of "it only does one thing? absurd & useless!" Never mind the single-mindedness of most ipods.
Then there are the those from the other extreme:
"I can't use AA batteries? There's wifi to suck the battery? Why Oh Why can't I just have an individual device for everything that I want to do?!"
I love my SONY Reader. It does very few things very well. I Think that many people confuse the metaphorical notion of good tech "disappearing" with the physical notion of magical gadgets. There are limits to science and physics.
@ M-Reader: nice Stephenson allusion. Sadly, am afraid that old Neal has corrupted a generation of geeks. Someday, instead of crying "Where's my flying car?!" We'll shout "Where' my matter compiler?!"
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