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Originally Posted by Solicitous
I think this device will be a big failure, I mean who would want to buy it? Does it have out of all those links a link to lolcats? Well without that it is useless to me and everyone else who'd buy one.
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Darn it. It's back to the drawing board then... Just when I though I had my dream of spending the rest of my days 'Rich, Retired and Reading' in my grasp.
Seriously though, I am sad to see the Courier and the HP Slate apparently killed off in fairly quick succession. They both looked potentially appealing. My fear is that the next designs might all swing too far from reading and academic/business use towards the market for all- singing, all-dancing, all-viewing entertainment devices (not that I mind those on the right occasions). I'd like to see a really good device that does reading books, writing, coping with technical PDFs, etc as a core feature rather than as a minor consideration.
But the tech game is always awash with rumours, so either or both might yet spring back from the dead, in some form or other, better than ever.
Cheers,
Chris