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Originally Posted by kamm
Exactly. Apple's in for money, nothing else and they declared this gazillion times.
Unless they can make their usual exorbitant profit on a product they won't make it, period.
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That's pretty much all major companies. Hardly exclusive to Apple.
And it's a good thing for most of us as it means they're focused on products that work great for the average user and not just techies.
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Originally Posted by taosaur
It doesn't have to be a dedicated ereader to fill that niche for casual readers and blow open the ebook market; more than half of people reading ebooks now are doing so on LCDs (PCs, laptops and phones), and with a little focus on improving that experience, the comfort gap with eInk can be closed considerably with existing technology. My matte LCD with convenient brightness controls is pretty comfortable as is.
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Exactly. The key to expanding ebook sales is getting good ereader functions into devices taht people buy for other functions.