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Originally Posted by fugazied
I think it sometimes blinds the haters to the capabilities of some of these Apple devices.
If you look at it on it's merits, we have a 10 hr battery life (probably 8 hrs in real world), very high quality touch screen color LCD. Immediately the possibilities for this device and e-books, color newspapers, color magazines, comics and interactivity within those platforms becomes apparent.
This will be a popular device in the mainstream, trendy with kids and their parents will hear about it through them and the mainstream media. Most will buy it for movies, internet, music, email, gaming and to have some of their favourite iPhone apps in a larger form factor. The reader aspect is just a bonus for most of those kinds of purchasers. Suddenly the market for e-books will be growing by a few million. Millions of people who may have never bought a dedicated e-reader will have this all in one device.
That's pretty important for further popularising e-books and it will have a positive effect on the entire e-books industry imo.
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Hmm.. So what the e-book market need is a 10 hour battery to drive and LCD and a closed environment...
Sorry, I disagree.