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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I disagree. It's possible that ebook readers will become a (lucrative) niche product. But you can still get a variety of devices that "just" plays radio stations, or "just" displays video signals, or "just" takes pictures, or "just" plays video games, and so forth. Not every device ought to be integrated into a multifunction device, and not every such integration eliminates single-purpose devices.
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Right on, Kali Yuga. In this digital age people are not laughing at books, are they? People are not laughing at computers (my phone can do anything my computer does). They are not laughing at TV's, I can watch TV on my computer or my phone. Did/do you laugh at ipods (I always used my phone for that)? I agree that some day (still quite a few years off) multipurpose devices will be as convenient for reading as today's readers are now. But by then they will quite possibly also replace today's computers, TVs, phones, and more.
And people keep forgetting one major problem with multifunction devices, if they go down, you can't do anything.