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Originally Posted by Charbax

That's not how all companies work. Some companies have evil plans to just screw people as much as possible out of all the money that they can take. Other companies like Google are founded by actual engineers who actually really know something about technology, founded by people who know how to program, how to do really advanced mathematics and how to build a server.

Then you have companies like Apple and Microsoft that are founded by technology opportunists that don't know much about technology but found the company based on stealing intellectual propriety from other small companies and then making a big business out of it.

This is a pretty ignorant and fanboyish way of subjectively defining different company philosophies. Marketers make tools out of people like you just as easily as they do for Apple fans.

That's the difference between using Pixel Qi in an ARM Powered device where the ARM processor and the whole system basically uses milliwatts when for example reading text or just not moving anything on the screen, there Pixel Qi makes 10x difference.

Yes, as long as you aren't doing anything. In consumer-bred theory. There are no products that demonstrate this, and Pixel Qi and Notion Ink aren't making these boasts either, instead being vague and allowing consumers like you to make up whatever runtime fantasies make you happy.

And then there is the Intel based Laptops and Netbooks where the Intel processor consumes more power than LCD backlights, there the improvement is below 2x because you still have to run the Intel processor and the whole x86 system all the time.

So basically you're just saying you like ARM and not Intel. You've said that a lot, in your videos and in posts and of course your site. I agree though that most Atom-based solutions are not going to be ideal for low-power applications. SoCs seem to be a decent solution currently.

5x for the screen, but even further optimizations in overall power consumption are made much more easilly using ARM processors than Intel.

Thank you for your conjecture, but I'll wait for actual products, or even product concepts to demonstrate. So far we've seen no such thing.

I understand how light works. It's like looking into neon lights with few words and transparent images stickered on it as content. Have fun doing that for hours for reading books.

This is ignorance. If you read a book indoors, you're looking into horrible flickering light bulbs. People somehow manage. Lots of people enjoy reading on LCDs, and have no desire for reflective screens at all. I also read frequently on LCD for hours at a time, and am not offended whatsoever by the prospect of a dedicated reading device using a backlit screen. If I were to buy an iPad, it would be almost exclusively for reading applications, and that would be just dandy.

My ultimate decision will be based on whether there are better tablets available within a few months of the iPad's release. So far, it seems to be the best game in town, which I'm not happy about really, but I can't deny. Perhaps one of the upcoming Tegra 2 tablets will not be a complete failure on the hardware front, but it remains to be seen if they'll manage anything decent in terms of software integration. Judging by what I've seen from Asus, Samsung, and others so far, there's not much hope for a nice tight software setup.

Luckilly Pixel Qi does not need Apple to be popular either. There are plenty other huge companies that can't wait to out-compete Apple with better Android products on the market.

Like Notion Ink? Pixel Qi is not announcing its vendors, and the vendors are not announcing products with Pixel Qi. Who can't wait? There may be some big partners, and there might not be. We don't actually know until something is announced or leaked. All that currently exists is Notion Ink and some vague statements from Pixel Qi that there are partners and that people are excited. When a real company announces a real product that uses Pixel Qi, then they'll have some market credibility. Right now, they're a relative nobody.

I would love to see a good Android configuration on a tablet. I don't expect to see it happening in the near future. Looking at what is currently available doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence in the ability of developers to actually make a good Android tablet platform.

People who read have been the dominant segment of society for centuries. Apple is disregarding the interest of the majority of consumers because they would rather sell a few more Britney Spears music videos or ifartbeer apps first.

Bad consumer market conjecture, not worth addressing at length.