Thread: Cory Doctorow: "Hardware ebook readers are a dead end"
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Old 12-14-2011, 03:38 PM   #119
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Isn't he in the field of sci-fi too? How could he not predict something this easy?

Because its not easy. Steve Jobs made the same wrong prediction, for the same reasons. The takeaway? Jeff Bezos is a great business leader. He conceived of, executed, and monetized a concept that many people-including experts- thought was impossible.
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