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Originally Posted by osama_jamal
I am disappointed with Apple as much as I am disappointed with Plastic Logic. Thinking about it, they both spent ages in product development and missed very important requirements of their users.
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I would say that they missed very important requirements of
you, as well as an extremely tiny subset of the potential users of this device. And that's why they didn't bother with Pixel Qi. 99% of the people who will buy the iPad aren't going to read with it in sunlight and are predominately not going to read with it
at all, which is why the iTunes Bookstore got such little press time in the initial presentation. You're missing the whole point: Apple did NOT set out to create a book reader with the iPad. They set out to create a media tablet that will, in addition to the many other things it does, allow the user to read books. It is the absolutely perfect media device for anyone who doesn't actually need a computer, which probably accounts for somewhere around 80% of the computer-using public. And that's why Apple made this device the way they did. To be frank, they couldn't care less if you want to read your books in e-ink. Jobs would just tell you to go buy a Kindle if it's that important to you.