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Originally Posted by zoran
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"What problems will the new nook & Kobo have? Will there be a touch/sans-physical keyboard Kindle with ePub? What will Sony do? These are questions we have no answer to and if you have a good enough reader, wait."
Wrong. That way you will wait whole life. There will always be better reader
next year/century.
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While I agree with most of your post Zoran, I don't necessarily agree with this; I'm usually an early adopter whether it be hardware or software, and more often than not, I get burned, because the developer/manufacture rushed to market, or didn't test sufficiently. I fully accept getting burned because despite experience, I usually buy first production runs, although I've tried to stop this practice because I just don't have as much disposable income as I used to.
It makes much more sense for people to wait for a reviews, or even reviews of second revisions/first firmware updates that usually fixes many of the problems that fell through the cracks with the first production runs. It also makes sense to be fully informed about a purchase and your options prior to purchasing, and unfortunately, information like what we're currently seeing for the new Kobo is nothing but marketing hype. you can't assume that they've fixed all the problems from previous versions because you know what they say about when you assume, right?
But you're not entirely wrong though, at least when it comes to features. yes, if you keep waiting for particular features as they are announced, ie - kobo announces touch screen for June...just before release, kindle announces the same, but with a virtual keyboard for september, so you decide to wait for that, and again just before release, Sony announces all the above but adds yet another wanted feature, but for release another 3 months down the line and again you decide to wait for that...you're absolutely right, you'll never make a purchase as you wait for the next best thing, or you'll be like I used to be and have a lot of similar devices piling up that you're not using anymore
and his last point is dead on; if you have a device that's doing the job already and doing it well enough, you can afford to wait longer to make sure you're not purchasing a lemon.