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Originally Posted by dwig
Once technology advances to eliminate the unique advantage that the one trick pony has, it dies as its function is merged with another device. PIMs (e.g. Palm Pilots, ...) as phones became smart phones and got smaller and lighter, allowing them to assume all of the utility of the PIMs. As it is today, tablets are struggling to maintain a position outside of the Schwarzchild Radius of that Black Hole that is the ever more powerful "smart phone". The tablet world will likely absorb the ereader world as pressure increases from smart phones' the ever expanding influence.
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I don't see tablets absorbing eReaders. I see tablets dying as smartphones take their place. There also seems to be the beginning of an anti-I'm-connnected-all-the-time movement. I think eReaders will still be around in ten years.