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Originally Posted by fgdas
There's a huge set of people who want to read big pdf files and papers including the government and legal community, the entertainment and music industry, not forget the very first pilots were conducted in collaboration with universities.
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Valid points, but how many of these people will want an eInk device rather than a more general-purpose tablet? The eInk device has many benefits (lighter in weight, longer battery life, and better sunlight visibility), but on the other hand you can do so much more with the tablet. That's why I think personally that large-screen tablets are a mass-market (albeit expensive) device, while large-screen eInk devices will continue to be a very niche market sector. (Which is not to say, of course, that companies like Onyx can't be very successful in that niche market.)
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That is why you'll see updated devices with dual i.MX7 processor including Sony's Digital Paper this summer.
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That's perhaps overly optimistic. We'll see such devices, yes, but I'll personally be surprised if it's in the summer. End of the year's more likely, I think. I have some doubts that Sony will continue in the market; their 13" device doesn't seem to have been hugely successful, and they've already abandoned the eInk fiction reader market.