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Originally Posted by stustaff
I think people are comparing it to laptops which it cant and doesnt comete with or with the samller eink readers which it doesnt compete with.
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Initially* it looks to me as though it will be a "watch TV on the train" kind of device, bridging the gap between the laptop, which is great for watching things on but is more or less static (I know technically they're portable, but they're just too big to have on your lap on a train or a plane) and the mobile phone, which is truly portable but really too small to watch things on for an extended period. As such it won't compete with laptops or phones, but it
will be in the same market segment as reader devices, as it will perform the same function (i.e. truly portable entertainment).
Whether it will compete directly with e-ink readers, however, will depend upon whether the kind of people who buy e-ink readers are only interested in ebooks, or whether they'd like to watch TV, video, browse the internet etc. whilst they're out and about as well. The multi-application nature of it could kill off its single application competitors.
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No doubt new uses and applications will evolve over time and take it in directions that no-one could have predicted