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Originally Posted by viceant
I'm astonished what remarKable people have done. I wonder, If eReaders market is already too small because people like the quick responsiveness of tablets, why shrink it more targeting only sketching abilities?
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If I were to design a versatile eink device for reading, note-taking and more, my plan is as follows: Take an Android tablet and slap an eink screen on it.
Obviously, it cannot stop here and some adjustments are needed. First, animations must be off. Completely off. Second, Touch, Hold, and Drag can all be different things, but eink screen is less responsive, so this needs adjusting too, with Hold probably eliminated as far as possible.
Now, maybe there's something I am missing, but what else could be there? Android gives you tons of apps to try and some of them simply must work, even though very few appmakers are considering the quirks of eink screens. At least simple Android+eink would be a good start, no?
I find this a nobrainer and I keep wondering why nobody is doing this. Onyx Booxes appear to come closest, why no one else?
Yes, tablets came and took the market away from ereaders, but the way to get the market back is not by having quirky closed half-baked specialized software on the devices. The way to get the market back is to have the same software that the tablets use with the full and complete range of options that users have on other devices with apps they already know and appreciate.