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Old 04-14-2016, 02:03 PM   #631
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Day 2 and the Oasis has been removed from Amazon's front page scrolling banner. Why?
Well a lot of the diehard Kindle fans turned their noses up to it. A poll in the Kindle forum area of MR shows 64% stating they will never buy it. Considering most of the time it is at least 64% of these same people who say they will buy a newly released Kindle, it makes me wonder. And to make it even worse, they actually gave it the name Oasis, which makes us think of water, even though it has no water proofing at all! Now that is funny! I could care less about waterproofing, but many have long awaited such a Kindle... But ultimately it is likely due to the short attention span of the typical human. If they can keep our attention more than 10 minutes they are lucky. By day two we have already been distracted and moved on to something else.
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Day 2 and the Oasis has been removed from Amazon's front page scrolling banner. Why?
Just checked. It's there for me.

They know you're waiting on the Kindle Campfire, so they don't show it to you.
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Old 04-14-2016, 02:07 PM   #633
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Day 2 and the Oasis has been removed from Amazon's front page scrolling banner. Why?
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Because its going to take 6 months to Fill all those Pre Orders & Offer it again.
They could use the so-far mostly unsold UK stocks to fulfil those US orders Merlot and black wifi only still coming up with April 27th delivery here. They probably hadn't planned on walnut being popular - that's got a June 6th delivery date now, so that's obviously just the lack of stock for the cover holding these up rather than a lack of devices.
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Old 04-14-2016, 02:13 PM   #634
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Other than Talking about what YOU want in a E-Reader DID Anyone TELL Amazon? IF you don't Contact Amazon How they going to Know?? [No answer needed just think about it.]
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Old 04-14-2016, 02:18 PM   #635
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For all those that pre-ordered with glee just because it was a new Kindle, shame on you for teaching amazon that it can get away with this.
Are you really "shaming" people for buying something that they (unlike you) want to use? That's how choice works.
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Old 04-14-2016, 02:20 PM   #636
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Just checked. It's there for me.

They know you're waiting on the Kindle Campfire, so they don't show it to you.
No doubt

But then, nothing else in the banner entices me either.
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Old 04-14-2016, 02:22 PM   #637
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Quick question: who on this thread has experience of design and manufacture of electronic devices, especially ones with complex circuit boards (phones, tablets etc)?

I just need to know who to take seriously when they talk about it being "easy" to put the same set of components in a smaller case.
I did work on video games for a brief period in 1990.

So yea, you've seen one circuit board, you've seen them all.

In all seriousness, no not that easy.
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Old 04-14-2016, 02:47 PM   #638
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because the price is premium
That was the only thing I could figure out too.
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That's a great observation. In fact, maybe the starting design requirement was to eliminate all those returns due to spotty lighting ==> shorter throw ==> across width, not length ==> requires larger side bezel for lights ==> might as well put controls and other things there in that space ==> call it a feature!
I don't think so. Their priority which they have stated themselves is to make the device disappear in your hand. Any marginal improvement in the lighting is a bonus, not the driving factor.
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Day 2 and the Oasis has been removed from Amazon's front page scrolling banner. Why?
When I go to Amazon it's still featured right below the banner. Hard to miss.
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Well a lot of the diehard Kindle fans turned their noses up to it. A poll in the Kindle forum area of MR shows 64% stating they will never buy it.
I'm guessing a poll for the Voyage would net pretty much the same results. There are a lot of us who can't afford (or can't justify) spending nearly $300 for an eReader. I'm pretty sure Amazon understands this, which is why they didn't quit making their other models when they announced the Oasis.
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Has it been confirmed the oasis has a plastic substrate.

Because really, these things last pretty much forever except for the broken screen (and dead battery, which is not hard to replace).

I broke one once. Turned on to see the screen all messed up. I didn't know then what it was, wasn't aware I had done anything to it. Called Amazon and described what I saw and they gave me a replacement.
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But then, nothing else in the banner entices me either.
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Has it been confirmed the oasis has a plastic substrate.
It does not.
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The Oasis uses a Carta screen and Carta screens use a glass substrate.
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