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Originally Posted by Sonist
Speaking of calming down, I am really not sure what your point is, or why you are getting excited?
If you want to maintain e-readers will never be more than a niche product, fine. Kind of like red wine, hard-cover books, smart-phones, or push email. Not all will have it, or like it, but many will.
Nevertheless, Citigroup estimates the Kindle to generate $1.2 billion for Amazon in 2010, which should boggle your mind, particularly if you think that $350 is such an exorbitant sum (for a device, which among other things, would allow you to read any classic you want, for free.)
The same world, where people spend $299 for a touch device to listen to music on the go (or $399 for the 32gb version of the iPod Touch.)
Just different priorities, I guess. Some dance, some read, some eat....  |
You want to know why I'm getting annoyed with you, do you really want to know? Because you're an ignorant idiot, that's why. And I'm not going to apologize for my tone.
I tell you what, and this is my thinking, come to my neighorhood and ask the people who are about %70 unemployed at the moment, whether £300 is an exhorbatant amount. I'm lucky, I've got a job, but there's a lot of people around me who are getting evicted and have bailiffs at the door who would rather use some of that money on, you know, eating food and paying their bills. But you could tell them about all the free classics they'd get, I'm sure that would impress them.
You talk from an elevated position, ignorant of what other people are going through at the moment. Red wine this and smart phone that, when people are suffering big time. Bandying about sums of money like it's nothing and in such an arrogant tone when that kind of money is the difference between having a roof over your head and being homeless.