Thread: KFX and Amazon's policies
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Old 12-13-2017, 02:31 PM   #86
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Anyway you want to slice it, ereaders are a niche product. There are enough in that niche to warrant a bigger screen. Did anyone else notice Amazon let Kobo do the initial research on both size and waterproofing?
Yes to the general public 100 million or so seems like a lot. Compared to the billions of phones and tablets, it is just a drop in the bucket.
Yeah, Amazon seems to mostly be following the past multiple years, but they were the first company to bring back buttons and provide an option to disable the touchscreen (but kudos to the developers for providing the latter first).

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Expect at least 6 months from enough people wanting something to it being implemented.
For sure. Buttons took longer, and it has been years for the first toe dipping for touchscreen disabling.
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