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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Something that can be a great eReader and also do internet, e-mail, movies, music, games etc. etc. is what will really take off and expand the market for eBooks.
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At the current state of the art the only thing that does all that is a netbook, and it does none of them as well as something designed for the job. Maybe someday, but not with the currently available technology. Unless batteries improve capacity by more than an order of magnitude, even being able to overcome the problem of disparate optimum screen size requirements for those tasks will not be enough to overcome the advantages of devices designed to do a smaller subset of tasks and do them well. There will probably always be people who will accept the mediocrity of an overgeneralized device, but there will always be others who want the performance that only a device optimized for the task can provide.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
There may be dedicated readers for a long time, but they will be a small part of the eBook market in the future IMO.
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The future is a very tricky thing.
