Thread: Newscorp Buys Skiff From Hearst
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Old 06-14-2010, 04:44 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by cmdahler View Post
That hardware was just vaporware. I'd bet they stopped work on it the day the iPad was announced. A big company like Hearst or Fox isn't going to give a crap about developing some uberexpensive reader of which they'll only be able to sell a few thousand units to rabid must-have-eink-or-nothing fanatics. These corporations are both in the content-delivery business. As long as someone else is making the device, they're not going to waste any capital on R&D. The Skiff Reader would almost certainly have cost several hundred dollars per unit at a minimum. No way that would have sold well enough in the general marketplace next to the iPad and other upcoming Android devices to even recoup R&D.
Not according to Sprint. I was told this morning (before the sale) that Skiff-Sprint launch is still on for this year.
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