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Luckilly Pixel Qi does not need Apple to be popular either. There are plenty other huge companies that can't wait to out-compete Apple with better Android products on the market. People who read have been the dominant segment of society for centuries. Apple is disregarding the interest of the majority of consumers because they would rather sell a few more Britney Spears music videos or ifartbeer apps first. Last edited by Charbax; 02-23-2010 at 01:17 AM. |
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My ultimate decision will be based on whether there are better tablets available within a few months of the iPad's release. So far, it seems to be the best game in town, which I'm not happy about really, but I can't deny. Perhaps one of the upcoming Tegra 2 tablets will not be a complete failure on the hardware front, but it remains to be seen if they'll manage anything decent in terms of software integration. Judging by what I've seen from Asus, Samsung, and others so far, there's not much hope for a nice tight software setup. Quote:
I would love to see a good Android configuration on a tablet. I don't expect to see it happening in the near future. Looking at what is currently available doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence in the ability of developers to actually make a good Android tablet platform. Quote:
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02-23-2010, 08:42 AM | #139 | |
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The basic fact of the matter is that most people couldn't care less about Pixel Qi. Please try to understand that. No one cares. My wife, for example, will be perfectly happy reading books on an iPad. She is currently completely happy reading books on paper. She has tried reading books on my Sony 505, and she doesn't see the big deal with e-ink. I suspect she is fairly representative of the majority of regular people out there. Apple is not going to put some kind of untested, brand new technology into a device that the mass market is simply not going to care about. The iPad is not intended to be an ereader. It is just an iPod Touch with a big screen on it, and you can read books on it if you want. But Jobs did not make this device for you. I hope you get your Pixel Qi device at some point. I think you're kidding yourself if you think this new tech is going to dominate the market anytime soon. But whatever; later this year you'll probably have a chance to buy a device that uses it. Good luck to you. |
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Yep. I fully expect the "next step" for the iPad to be to AMOLED panels, when such become available in sufficient quantity in the right size...
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Yep. I know this is mobile read, but many here fail to recognize that most people aren't super avid readers (aka bookworms) like most here are. Even among those that read regularly, the majority aren't reading for hours continuously on a regular basis, but just reading an hour or two a day here and there etc. Thus having e-ink or some other reflective screen just isn't a huge need for many people. Only the people reading for hours on end, who need the screen for eye strain and battery life reasons really care. Most are like myself or your wife who just read an hour here and there and can read on pretty much any screen type. Factor in that, especially among my generation and younger, people like me are spending much more time on the internet, movies, music, video games etc. than reading, and most of us prefer a screen optimized for those things on a tablet device, vs. something optimized for reading--especially e-ink that can't do any of the other stuff. Down the road when there are screens that can do video as sharp as a LCD or OLED screen and have a reflective mode for reading, then we can get tablets that excel at both. Maybe Pixel QI will be that screen, time will tell. |
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After about 20 minutes of staring at my iPhone 3G S's screen, if I look up in the distance, things re definitely blurry for a minute or so, which tells me my eyes are tired. I don't have this problem with the Kindle and didn't have it with my previous Sony, or iRex ereaders. I also do not experience such blurriness after looking at my Apple IPS screen the whole day. |
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If I have to read a pocket book or similarly small surface for a long time, I try to make sure I occasionally roll my eyes a bit or move the book around so my eyes can follow it around without being quite so fixed in their sockets. Last edited by LDBoblo; 02-23-2010 at 03:13 PM. |
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Yeah, I get the blurriness when looking up with any kind of close vision activities--more for 10-20 seconds that a minute or so though.
Doesn't matter if it's my laptop, kindle, cell phone screen, portable gaming machine, a book, magazine etc. If I sit looking at something close--say reading or working on the couch--when I look up to say the TV across the room my vision is blurry for 10-20 seconds as it adjusts to looking at a distance rather than focusing up close as it has been for a long stretch. Last edited by dmaul1114; 02-23-2010 at 04:44 PM. |
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It's good that there are lots of different devices to choose from so we can all find which device works best. |
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Unless somebody else beats tehm to it then the first place it will be seen is the notion ink adam and other than its lesser storage thats using netbook-level hardware rather than being anything high-end.
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They don't give away stuff for free, they do it because it benefits their business simple as that and are basically acting like microsoft did on the desktop. |
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