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Originally Posted by John F
WOW, only 30 minutes per day! That makes the Sage look like fantastic battery life.  |
This is AD-manship striking again. How do you make a number look BIGGER?
Change the criteria that was used to measured it.
Back in the 50's, The US FTC had to step in and make rules on how HiFi (stereo) Amplifiers
Output POWER RATINGS were advertised.
Some were so skewed because they used the power IN (mains) consumption (These were Tube back then, so 300W was not unusual for a 10W output)
Some bright engineer, came up with using a single click (on a single channel) to get some really insane numbers. and the list goes on...
The rule became: All channels driven, into rated load (8 ohms was common) for 8 hours.
TV sets were similarly distorted. Originally the CRT was round so 8" was still 8" even at 4:3. But then the tube became rectangular and Diagonal screen measurement still exists to this day
Well, e-readers started on PDA's and (monochrome) LCD. Battery life was not much, so why not use a 'commute' as the read time (I sure hope you are not one of the IDIOTS that I have seen driving with a Newspaper resting on the steering wheel the predecessor to reading on a phone while driving)
So it all breaks down to who had the better NUMBERS, forcing the followers to use the same insane criteria or they look bad.