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Originally Posted by John F
I'm a little surprised when I hear comments about companies not visiting enthusiast sites. I would hope there is at least one enthusiast employee in a product's development team.
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User opinions and reality conflict with manglement, beancounters and crayon dept. Few large companies let developers conceptualise or top level design, but want implementations of the marketing vision at appropriate cost. Most actual developers of any product aren't allowed to engage on SM or forums. The companies will have marketing/support people for that.
In ereader market you also have start-up or Chinese gadget companies where the design/spec team obviously don't read many books or understand the concept of library view using meta-data but focus on features (Such as reMarkable, Boyue/Meebook etc). The big names are focused on retailing ebooks, which is why Sony, with a great PRS series, exited the ereader market because they were bookselling focused and their bookstore was a failure.
The color Mirasol ereader was for two Chinese bookstores.
Amazon sold ebooks before they had a Kindle.
Barnes & Noble and Kobo have bookstores.
Tolino, bought by Kobo was about the bookstore.
Apple, Google, Amazon, B&N, Kobo provide free apps and want to sell ebooks.
Binatone wanted to partner with a bookstore with some of their LCD ereaders.
We are lucky there are any eink ereaders.