Thread: Unhappy ending for e-readers?
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Old 01-08-2010, 03:29 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole View Post
And the market is proving Kurweil is correct when he says "People want to do everything--they want to watch their movies, they want to do all their computing, their e-mail on one platform," he said in an interview. "They don't want to take another device."
Devices that just to read books on are not that popular. Keyboards, mp3 support, wireless... that is what the market is hot for. Consider Kindle, Nook, Sony PRS-900 etc..... and the trend will continue.
Like I said in another post, in another 5 years is will be nearly impossible to buy a dedicated reading device. And the truth is there are very few such devices now.
I agree with most of your comments except for one key area I don't believe dedicated readers will cease to exist they will just be a lot cheaper. You still find dedicated mp3, pda, etc.
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