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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
It is a niche thing--but it's a big niche.
I mean you have the whole student market there you could really sell on a device like this by showing all the cool multimedia features, but also that they can buy their textbooks in cheaper e versions and highlight and scribble on them just like they do their textbooks currently.
As well as being useful for anyone that has to read and mark up documents in their work, be it researchers, teachers grading/proofing papers etc.
But yeah, I don't expect to get what I want in mass market tablet like the iPad. I need a tablet that's build mainly as a document reader and mark up and doesn't use a slow, clunky e-ink display like the Que or iRex etc.
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Yes. That is why it annoys me when companies just rush to copy the perceived market leader, and tend to focus on the checklist stuff (ours is faster! has more ports! 20% more battery life!) rather than taking the time and discovering at what valuable niches there are available to be filled, and addressing those markets. Seems to me, just by reading boards like this one, that there are some small but potentially lucrative niches just waiting for someone to satisfy.