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Originally Posted by rcentros
I don't see eReaders going away. They're a niche market, but it's a pretty big niche. And, according to the article, it appears Amazon (at least) understands that many (probably a majority) of the heavy readers prefer eReaders.
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I don't think they'll go away until there's something that does what they do as well if not better for most of that niche.
I remember in the era of Palm Pilots and other PDAs - which lest we forget were massively popular - that there were some early attempts to combine a phone with a PDA. They were awful and the reviews usually pointed out that you better off sticking with single use devices. A phone that's just a phone will be a better phone than one that's also trying to be a digital organiser. And I think that was true until it wasn't.
At some point someone figured out how to combine these functions, and others,
well - and we got smartphones. I think it was partly design and partly that the technology had to catch up - touch screens and faster mobile CPUs. Once they were good enough a watershed was reached and the market for PDAs went from being massive to niche.
And I think this could happen with screen technologies.