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Originally Posted by MGlitch
My mistake on the professional side then, someone should update a certain wiki page. But I’ll stand by the consumer level line being nixed in 2014 and as we were talking consumer products...
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Yeah, they're different markets.
For one thing, they're document viewers (pdf) not ebook readers (epub or lrf).
It's like the difference between a Samsung TV from BestBuy and a Microsoft Surface Hub or Google's (me too!) Jamboard.
Sony made good readers but they were out of sync with the market.
They had a good walled garden bookstore and killed it in favor of interoperative epub just as Kindle's started to mainstream ebooks; they focused on lighting and touchscreens while the market wanted wireless, they did premiumhardware when the market wanted cheap access (they misread the value of Pearl screens and underproduced and ran out, leaving Amazon with an effective monopoly for months) and then pivoted to chdap readers as the early adopters were ready for premium readers.
Their list of misssed opportunities isn't as bad as B&N but the world would be a different place is they'd stuck with the LRF walled garden. They were the hardware first movers, they *should* have been big time. Instead, they blew it.