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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The iPad is not all that portable and doesn't work well in direct sunlight. The K2 is good in direct sunlight and is portable. So given the Kindle app for the iPad, they can compliment each other. The ipad is as portable as the DX. The main difference is direct sunlight.
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Agreed, and that's why the "Kindle Killer" stuff is silly. They are different devices. Some will just want one or the other as their reader. For others they can compliment each other.
As I said above, I do think it puts a lot of challenge on the Kindle DX, Que and other large e-ink devices as I'm not sure how that market will stand up when those devices are as much or more than the Ipad and other tablets.
They'll still sale to avid readers who just want a bigger screen and want e-ink, the long battery life etc. But as I said, that's a niche within a niche. I think most like me who want a bigger screen for PDFs for scholarly work etc. would rather have a tablet we can do more on as it's not something that gets read for hours on end like a novel reader like the Kindle 2.