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Originally Posted by Steeplechase
Do any of you see a time when an eReader is reliably manufactured to last 5 or 10 years or do you see them as disposable items intended to last until the warranty runs out?
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Probably the latter. But not just
ereaders. I don't see a future where
any electronic device in what I call the "personal gadget" category is reliably manufactured to last for five to ten years, quite frankly. That's just not the business paradigm the personal gadget industry is predicated upon. Even if the hardware were to last that long and the software didn't glitch, the support framework for its particular feature set would probably be retired/phased out.