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Originally Posted by dmikov
I might be wrong here, but their announcement of their reader next day after B&N announced theirs with a shipping date (i.e. They have a product) and the 3 year startup doesn't. Well that just looked fishy.
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Well, my personal feeling is that the whole dual-screen thingie is lame.
But I don't think that Spring just cooked a device in a few days just to sue B&N. If the NDA agreement & the Powerpoint slide they distributed today are true, they were already working on it early 2009. I don't think they would be stupid enough to attack B&N with forged documents, but we will know soon enough.
And if their story is true, they must have been badly surprised when B&N announced the nook, and henceforth announcing their own device was a logical step if they were gonna try to protect their IP.
Also, as of today, the two devices are at the exact same point : Both are unreleased, and both were only demoed in the hands of their respective companies officials.