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Originally Posted by Charbax
I don't know exactly when the first Pixel Qi based devices are going to be available on the market. But I am sure that if Apple had wanted to be the first with the screen commercially available on the market they could have.
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Of course they
could have. They could have made the iPad a e-ink device, or used Mirasol for it, or made it out of rock, for that matter. They could have done anything they wanted with it. They chose to stick with LCD because that's where this device is marketed: mass market, people like my mom and my wife. You guys are flying off on a tangent and totally missing the point to this device. You are acting like Jobs was marketing this device at you, the ereader market. What colossal ego. Jobs couldn't care less about you - the die-hard e-ink sunlight-visible ereader market is an inifinitesimally small subset of the potential mass market appeal of the iPad. This device was never intended to be a targeted ereader. It is a mass market multi-media tablet device that, by the way, can also read books, if you want. Jobs couldn't care less about your desire to read in the sun. He'd tell you to go buy a Kindle if it means that much to you.