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Originally Posted by griffonwing
But if the mainstream players (Sony, Amazon) are releasing crippled devices for 200, and saving the bells and whistles for the 300-500 range, then I don't see the public jumping as fast as they would otherwise.
By crippled, I am referring to the limited features of the 300, which is Sony's 199 price-point device. Any device which is not user-friendly (replaceable battery, user-defined storage like SD cards, etc..) I consider to be crippled, and has an impact on whether or not I will purchase.
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Crippled seems to be an extremely harsh description of a device when what you really mean is doesn't suit your requirements, which doesn't seem that unlikely since this model is clearly sony's aim at increasing their market share by introducing new people to ebooks.
I would personally be quite shocked if sony were expecting to see many sales for the 300 from users experienced enough to find their way to a site like mobileread, they probably expect them to be interested in the 600 since its more likely to have features that would be an upgrade unless for some reason the marginal size/weight savings compared with a 505 were worth it to somebody.
Also, for a basic device aimed at newer users, the lack of external storage probably makes a device more user-friendly rather than less simply because it means there is only one place they could have copied their books.