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Originally Posted by lordvetinari2
I read about this in Engadget & Gizmodo, and it looks like most technogeeks there are very biased against some brands. For them, if it is not from Apple, then it is ugly. Plus, they totally hate Sony. Is this a normal attitude in the States?
They don't seem to understand the concept of e-ink, either. They think the pageturns are too slow (1-2s), that a PDA is faster. *sigh*
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Well, it is a reasonably common attitude in some U.S. circles. Apple has kind of an underdog mystique, never mind that they're so "under" primarily because they pursued some truly bone-head marketing strategies in the '80s (when they
were at least as strong as IBM compatables).
About all Apple had going for it for a long while were really nice esthetics and a core of amazingly die-hard faithfulls. Now they have the iPod, and everyone's getting excited about their "come-back" -- in fact they still have a long way back to come.
I suppose you have to admit that PDA screens
do refresh faster.
Of course, that really high refresh rate (and backlighting) make them strainful to read on, not to mention the really small screen size. Although ... now that I think about it, by the time you read an amount of text on on a PDA equivalent to a single e-ink screen (even the 6" one, let alone the 8") you've probably approached a second's worth of page flipping!
Some folks simply have trouble wrapping their minds around how truly revolutionary e-ink is. They compare it to PDA's, which are inadequate for that purpose in the first place, instead of comparing it to a paper book, the gold (paper?) standard.
Yes, it does take .5~1 seconds to flip an e-page -- how long does it take to flip a paper page? What about when the pages want to stick together? Mmm-hmm, 1 second looks a little less bothersome that way, doesn't it? Ghosting? Yeah we got all het up about ghosting around here a few weeks back -- until someone pointed out the ghosting on paper pages that we've all managed to live with, somehow, for years.
If someone has unrealistic expectations, they sometimes can't let go of them easily. Most will do so when confronted with the reality, but some will just be too stubborn to admit that maybe they weren't thinking about it right.
In the meantime,
we'll be enjoying our e-ink readers.
Don't worry, after I've seen the reality of what e-ink is ... well, let's just say it really does speak for itself.
@yvanleterrible: Smart phones seem to be mostly moving more in the Treo/Blackberry direction for form-factor at the moment, so maybe there's hope for them.