Thread: Kobo Forma with light defect now one year old
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Old 11-14-2019, 05:58 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by ratinox View Post
That's putting the cart before the horse. "People" weren't demanding it in significant numbers until after Apple started touting the waterproofing in iPhones as a premium feature -- and using it as one of their many threats against third party repairs.
I don't agree. In the very first review of an ereader that I ever saw, one of the reviewers comments was that he liked to read in the bath. And he was willing to risk losing a $20 dollar book if he dropped it in the bath, but not a $500 dollar (local price, at least 10 years ago). He wanted a waterproof device the first time he saw an ereader. There were plenty of suggestions for a waterproof device in discussions here before Kobo started making them. Lots of people said they

As to other devices, again, waterproofing a phone makes sense. My son has a dead phone after getting caught in a storm on the way home from school.
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