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Originally Posted by griffonwing
It's like the old adage "Keeping up with the Jones's".
Just because they have a new car doesn't mean we have to buy one.
Picture Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold kept putting more crap and more crap on his house to one-up his neighbor. Soon, I can foresee the newest e-readers with every possible conceived option. And you know what? It will no longer be an e-book reader. It'll be everything BUT.
What if you just want a simple Sony Reader that does nothing but read ebooks. You don't want to pay for wifi, nor for net-access, or auto-downloading books, inter-connected with your PS-3 and able to surf the web to check your mail.
Yet, if you want to purchase a new Sony Reader, you will be paying for the R&D used to develop those functions because that will be all that they offer. No more simple devices.
I know, I stretched it a bit with the PS-3 thing, but who knows what the future tech will bring? Link it with your PS3 and read on your 56" plasma screen.
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Old technology has generally had to make way for new technology. Thankfully we don't have to carry around those huge mobile phones that first came out (think, "Night at the Roxburry"
). That's just the nature of the beast. We've been buying movies for years and have a large collection of VHS tapes that still work. The problem is, once our old VHS player stops working, we won't be able to buy a new one because they aren't manufacturing them anymore. The companies that used to make them consider VHS dead. The same thing happened with my brothers 8-track tape player.
For better or worse, new advancements in technology mean new gadgets, usually at a higher initial price. Of couse, I'm a gadget freak, so I like the new stuff.