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Originally Posted by leebase

Your reasoning is faulty. The fact that even companies with huge resources and products and components in the industry can't whip up an answer to the iPad in only a year since it's introduction -- then a coupla Indian dudes who can write a spec sheet sure has heck aren't going to be able too.

That was not my reasoning. The fault in you resoning was that they fail because they are small. They fail for the same reason that big players like Motorola fail.

Sure...that's exactly how _I_ remember all the talk on this forum from a year ago was. "The Adam, you know, it's going to come out with a mediocre Pixel Qi screen that will suck compared to eInk screens for reading and still suck compared to the iPad screen from battery life." Yep. People called that from day one.

That it would be as good as an eInk screen is not a common opinion that I saw anywhere.

You'd have been better to buy an iPad 2 and a Kindle, dontcha think? After all, should you have even had a reason to buy an iPad 2 after already owning an Adam?

The iPad 2 was unplanned. My work bought it and I could not exchange it for some other tablet so the choice was an iPad2 or nothing.

And since I am mostly interested in goof pdf reading I will wait and see if eInk will ever work for that. I was not so impressed with the reading experience of my now broken Cybook Gen 3. And really I am perfectly comfortable with reading on a table screen.

Remember, the Adam was supposed to be shipping before the iPad was even announced. It barely made it out the door before the iPad 2 arrived. And STILL it's incredibly buggy. STILL the screen is so bad that no one would WANT such a screen. What they wanted was the IDEA of what the screen promised to be. eInk + LCD, what could be better than that? Well, pretty much anything else is.

I assume you have seen the screen and tested it for reading or?

Yes, a lot of people seems to have unreasonable expectations. That I agree with. My usage pattern is reading mostly when Qi is not needed but sometimes it is unavoidable that I want to read when there is sun light that disturbs the reading. So I expect the Adam to work very well for that.

Buggy software is standard. My old Nokia phone was also buggy when I bought it. Nexus S had some serious bugs the first 3 months and still have some annoying bugs. And the Adam has not made it out of the door since they are not selling it to the public.

Android isn't "Windows for tablets" yet. A small set of dudes from India weren't going to be able to leap ahead of Google (let alone Apple) and come out with a polished tablet OS.

It seems the me that most people that bought the Adam expects to have Gingerbread soon. So they did not trust Notion Ink for the software.

But wait -- there's STILL more. Even if a miracle had occurred and they had put great hardware with great software -- they STILL aren't even close to having the supply chain magnificence that Apple has. The ability to contract out manufacturing at such a scale that you can have low prices, still make money, and produce millions upon millions of tablets each month.

Of course. But why is this relevant? I thought you talked about failing relative to their goals. And their goal was not to sell as much as Apple. I think their goal was that for a lot of people to be a serious alternative and to be a serious alternative in the Andoid tablet market.

There was never a chance Notion Ink was going to make this mythical product that had so many folks salivating over the last year and a half on this forum.

A good product is not the same as being able to sell millions of them. Of course a small company can make a very good product and a big company can make a very bad product.