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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I think it's amazing how so many companies have worked so hard for so long to not build a good reader, including the big shots (might even say especially the big shots). Makes me wonder how crippled and disconnected their reader R&D departments are in the first place, without having resources diverted to copycat tablet development.
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I don't know if companies, even the "big shots", have been confident in the viability/profitability of the eBook market to a)devote the necessary resources and b)take the necessary risks/investments on new technologies to make a good reader.
I read that Apple was placing orders for over a million iPads/month, and possibly 2 million iPhone 4s/month...that definitely makes a 326ppi IPS screen a worthwhile investment/gamble. But, that is for a general purpose device.
The question is, what investments/risks are other companies going to make in promising tech like PixelQ, or even color e-Ink, which has a more specific usage model?