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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Of course that is marketing speak. Or it could be because they aren't native English speakers. But, you can't have a generation that comes before its parents. I don't think my kids could have been born before I was. I know I'm just nit picking here.
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The kindle was released after the iLiad, but the technology inside the kindle was released *before* the iLiad's. That's what they're talking about. The specific product/brand doesn't really matter. iRex is talking about the "generation" of the internal hardware.
Yes, it is all marketing speak. You can define "generation" with regards to these devices anyway you want. JWolf's definition is just as valid as iRex's. I was just trying to point out what iRex meant in the article, and that they were not talking about a new generation of eInk, which some people seemed to have thought.
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I consider all the current eInk devices to be Gen 1 of eInk. They are probably Gen 2 of digital readers in general with LCD devices being Gen 1.
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That's just as valid as anything else. It's just not what iRex was talking about.