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Originally Posted by HarryT
I trust Tribble's data that fewer than 1% of the Gen3's that he sells have had problems more than uncorroborated accusations of "design flaws". The overwhelming majority of screen breakages undoubtedly are due to the machine being banged, twisted, having something heavy placed on the screen, etc. That doesn't make the people who do it "retards" - it's very easy to do something like that and not notice it, and the problem does NOT always show up instantly.
Do you really believe that everyone who breaks their screen is mentally retarded?
It is NOT only Gen3 owners who break their screens - I posted a link in my earlier post to a precisely similar thread for the Sony Reader, and if you go to the iLiad and Kindle forums you'll find no shortage of similar reports. Screens break - that doesn't mean either that the design is faulty or that the user is mentally deficient, as you seem to be suggesting.
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I too trust Tribble's data. But his data is only based on his sales. And we seem to have enough people here saying that their Gen3's screen did just break with no know excessive force put on it. I don't think everyone who has had a mysteriously broken screen did anything to cause it. Maybe some did, but the numbers we have here can't be as high as they are with this many people breaking the screen without knowing they did so. And people who have broken their screen have admitted it.
Yes, screens break. But from all the reports on MR, Gen3 screens break more.