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Originally Posted by ApK
Not quite. Even if so, a chip is a real expense, and an engineering and hardware design issue, so this would be the last feature to claim should be thrown in.
But it's not just a chip, it a headphone jack and maybe speakers, an amplifier (ok, possibly on the chip) and the power to drive it, a case to allow for the jack or speakers, and then the software also.
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I see I didn't think of the periphery.
I would agree that audio is the first to cut when you intend to go cheap, but I question that the saving is big enough to justify the loss.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
These 6" ereaders are designed for average users and these users overwhelmingly read novels in portrait mode;
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The question here, then, would be if they do so because they chose, or because they don't know any other way, never thought of reading in landscape mode.
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You want landscape and I want audio, but the manufacturers think otherwise. So that's that.
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Well, yes, of course. But it doesn't mean I have to like it, or defend it.