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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
I've provided the facts, you just don't like them.
If a product is selling 100% of it's production (as e-ink ereaders currently are), then how can something possibly be having a negative effect on their sales? They're SELLING OUT. Sheesh, this really isn't hard to grasp...
The Kindle and Kindle DX ran out of stock several times during the Christmas run up, there have been shortages of Sony's in Europe as well. This is well documented, simply because you're not aware of them is not my issue.
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you continue to misrepresent things and not actually address the points i bring up. i'm not attacking you, i'm just looking for something you can prove. show me where it says that the e-ink companies can't produce any more screens. telling me that they're selling all that they make (which is exactly what you wrote) is something completely different.
lots of things run out during the x-mas holiday, but the kindle was by no means out of stock for the entirety of it. every time i checked, it was always in stock. so again, show me how eReaders are selling out. telling me that the displays are not sitting around the display warehouse before they go to the manufacturing factories is not proving to me anything and in no way proves that PDA's and smartphones have had no effect on e-readers. if you can make that correlation with facts, great! just show me!
show me something that's provable. you're giving me unrelated facts (actually, they're unsupported facts that i have to assume are correct, but i'm doing that anyway) that don't support your hypothesis.
here's a fact that you can witness. kindle's are in stock. sony readers are in stock. if they're "in stock". how can they be "selling out"? so then, if they're not "selling out", then there are obviously more to be sold to people that don't yet have them. so its certainly possible that the prevalence of PDA's and smartphones has had some effect on dedicated eReaders like the kindle or sony's reader.
you can always make more. they can always have higher production of e-ink displays and build more factories. you can lower production and still claim that you're selling 100% of what you produce. if i only make 10 units and sell all 10, then i'm selling 100% of production. but then next month i only make 5 and still sell all 5, well hey! good news! i'm still selling 100% of production!
how can you make a correlation from an abstract figure about display production to that PDA's and smartphones have had no effect on sales of eReaders?