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Old 10-19-2016, 03:31 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
One thing is that most users didn't complain the the H2O or Voyage are too big and/or too heavy. Since they didn't complain, then there was no need for the Oasis. (IMHO), the Oasis is an awful design with with a rather pathetic battery. The battery will only last 1/2 as long as the Voyage because it has to be charged twice as much.
There is a term for this: "tyranny of the majority". It's what leads to ergonomically pleasant things being insanely expensive, because people with (say) crippling RSI are a small market and so of course it is entirely reasonable to have to spend $1000 on a keyboard (like hell it is).

I'm very glad Amazon felt the need to come up with something suitable for people who don't like to (or cannot) hold nearly a third of a kilo one-handed indefinitely, and I'd appreciate it if you'd stop claiming that just because you don't want such a thing, most people don't want it, and thus it should not exist at all. What harm does its existence do to you, anyway? It can't be a simple hatred of a choice existing, or you'd not be so wildly in favour of the existence of any and all non-Amazon e-readers.
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