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Originally Posted by calvin-c
One of the major reasons Microsoft became the dominant force it did is because they realized that growing the market gave them more sales than cornering the market. IOW, they marketed PC's to non-PC users (in the generic sense of PC).
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If "growing the market" means creating a monopoly and then using that to kill off competition, then I agree with you.
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Apple, I think, is attempting the same with the iPad. It doesn't appear to me that they're marketing this for people who currently read ebooks, but that they're trying to pick up all the casual readers & convert them to ebooks. A color screen will help with that, as will the ability to do 'other things' besides read. But it'll need to be a fairly decent ereader or people will try it, then treat it as 'just a tablet netbook'. Until it's actually in use I have no idea how well it will work as an ereader-but I seriously doubt it'll work well enough to satisfy most MR members. We're already ebook readers so we're not in the target market, IMO.
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Yep. This isn't supposed to be an eReader device. It's a tablet notebook that, oh by the way, will also let you read a couple eBooks on it (just like every other tablet/notebook/laptop/PC/etc). I don't really think this will have much effect on the eBook market. I doubt very many people who get an iPad will even use it for reading eBooks.