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NiaTrue · 01-13-2011, 02:48 PM

Back in 2000 (roughly), I purchased an iRiver device. The tiny MP3 player, one of the first, was the size of two double A batteries and featured an FM radio and digital voice recording. Within a year or two, several other MP3 players hit the market, including other iRiver models, and though my iRiver lacked the bells and whistles of those later devices, I still prized it for the basic functionality that it provided. I'd bought it as a way to listen to my favorite songs while I walked through tthe city or ran errands. And it was perfect for that. I stil have it--and it still works!

I think of my eDGe the same way. I still value my eDGe for its basic function: annotating PDFs, reading ebooks, surfing the web and watching basic videos.

The difference between those two stories is that iRiver was a harbinger of the brand new digital/mobile world that was just opening up. That's just not the case with the new world of tablets. There are so many planned for release that I can no longer keep up with all of them. I hope enTourage doesn't lose steam (read: a chance at market share) the way iRiver did.

01-13-2011, 02:48 PM	#10
NiaTrue Edge User	Back in 2000 (roughly), I purchased an iRiver device. The tiny MP3 player, one of the first, was the size of two double A batteries and featured an FM radio and digital voice recording. Within a year or two, several other MP3 players hit the market, including other iRiver models, and though my iRiver lacked the bells and whistles of those later devices, I still prized it for the basic functionality that it provided. I'd bought it as a way to listen to my favorite songs while I walked through tthe city or ran errands. And it was perfect for that. I stil have it--and it still works! I think of my eDGe the same way. I still value my eDGe for its basic function: annotating PDFs, reading ebooks, surfing the web and watching basic videos. The difference between those two stories is that iRiver was a harbinger of the brand new digital/mobile world that was just opening up. That's just not the case with the new world of tablets. There are so many planned for release that I can no longer keep up with all of them. I hope enTourage doesn't lose steam (read: a chance at market share) the way iRiver did.