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Originally Posted by elcreative
Bold by me... this may have happened a while ago but everything, that seems to be around now, is promoting eReaders for the reader (especially for leisure) and denigrating tablets with shiny screens as not so comfortable for leisure ereading whether your hated iPads or any other (obviously much-loved) tablet...  |
elcreative, the critics have eased their volleys and diatribes and they are no longer predicting the demise of the Kindle, the Nook, and the Kobo, and the failure of the Fire. They can't ignore the numbers or the excitement of the millions that are buying those devices.
Tablets, including the Fire, iPad, HTC, Lenovo and others have their place. No one sitting at my keyboard is hating the iPad.
The point was that there have been many people in the proverbial "high places" holding up the iPad as some kind of holy grail and telling people that it was the TOTAL future and from now on it was really the only game in town. That has been proven wrong.
I think those folks are kind of quiet right now, and only spend their time beating down on devices like smartphones or players with larger screens than iPhones and iPod Touches. We shall have to see how the Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Players (4.0 and 5.0) and the Lenovo S2005 do. Sony and Archos are in that mix as well.
Also of course there are other 7" tablets besides the Fire and Nook Color. The Lenovo A1, the HTC Flyer, and the new Lenovo S2007 come to mind.
There are plenty of devices for all kinds of folks with different outlooks, and that is the way this writer likes it.