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They serve different purposes. Reading for extended periods of time on a device such as the Crunchpad, iPhone, LCD, etc., is torture.

ojilles 18y ago
Typing text messages on 9 keys and limited to 160 characters is torture as well. Did work well though. This device probably hits a different sweetspot (more versatile I'd guess) than the Kindle.
- redrobot5050 18y ago
  Works != Makes Money. When you "make a profit" you are successful. Twitter has a long way to go before its successful. Thankfully it has patient investors who are allowing it to experiment with a revenue model, because they're convinced its a cash cow. I'm more skeptical of it being the next best thing. Hardware, besides the cue cat, has to sell, and sell well enough that people are making money off the slim margins. TC will know its design is successful when Dell puts out a knock-off tablet for half the price.
  - sjs382 18y ago
    He didn't mention twitter at all.
    - redrobot5050 18y ago
      >Typing text messages on 9 keys and limited to 160 characters is torture as well. I took this to mean Twitter. As many users of their service originally started out using it to mass-txt their friends.
      - sjs382 18y ago
        It also says nothing about "mass texting" They're only talking about texting. Not twitter.
david927 18y ago
But I can't imagine ever buying a Kindle, and I'll most certainly get this device. I'm already reading digital books on my PC or laptop, but I'd prefer to read it on this. In other words, I don't think Kindle will die immediately, but its time is up.
- Andys 18y ago
  One critical difference: the Kindle only uses battery power when changing the display. Tablet PCs have a similar power profile, size, and weight to a regular laptop.
  - skwiddor 18y ago
    I have a Sony e-book and the battery discharges without page turning, even when the screen is off.
jerf 18y ago
"Reading for extended periods of time on a device such as the Crunchpad, iPhone, LCD, etc., is torture." Your sentence ended too early. You forgot the "for me". I used to read Project Gutenberg ebooks on my Palm Pilot... the Palm Pilot 2. That's a monochrome (effectively) 160x160 screen. I was fine. There's a lot of us who don't mind so much. (I know studies show reading speed drops, but I wonder if it might pick up again if you tested someone using a display like that long enough to get used to it. At any rate, I sure didn't feel slowed down, which is the important thing.) I'd buy this over a Kindle in a heartbeat, though I'm still not going to give up my laptop keyboard so I'm not in the market at all. (But I'm even more not in the market for a Kindle.)

ojilles 18y ago

Typing text messages on 9 keys and limited to 160 characters is torture as well. Did work well though. This device probably hits a different sweetspot (more versatile I'd guess) than the Kindle.

redrobot5050 18y ago
Works != Makes Money. When you "make a profit" you are successful. Twitter has a long way to go before its successful. Thankfully it has patient investors who are allowing it to experiment with a revenue model, because they're convinced its a cash cow. I'm more skeptical of it being the next best thing. Hardware, besides the cue cat, has to sell, and sell well enough that people are making money off the slim margins. TC will know its design is successful when Dell puts out a knock-off tablet for half the price.
- sjs382 18y ago
  He didn't mention twitter at all.
  - redrobot5050 18y ago
    >Typing text messages on 9 keys and limited to 160 characters is torture as well. I took this to mean Twitter. As many users of their service originally started out using it to mass-txt their friends.
    - sjs382 18y ago
      It also says nothing about "mass texting" They're only talking about texting. Not twitter.

david927 18y ago

But I can't imagine ever buying a Kindle, and I'll most certainly get this device. I'm already reading digital books on my PC or laptop, but I'd prefer to read it on this. In other words, I don't think Kindle will die immediately, but its time is up.

Andys 18y ago
One critical difference: the Kindle only uses battery power when changing the display. Tablet PCs have a similar power profile, size, and weight to a regular laptop.
- skwiddor 18y ago
  I have a Sony e-book and the battery discharges without page turning, even when the screen is off.

jerf 18y ago

"Reading for extended periods of time on a device such as the Crunchpad, iPhone, LCD, etc., is torture." Your sentence ended too early. You forgot the "for me". I used to read Project Gutenberg ebooks on my Palm Pilot... the Palm Pilot 2. That's a monochrome (effectively) 160x160 screen. I was fine. There's a lot of us who don't mind so much. (I know studies show reading speed drops, but I wonder if it might pick up again if you tested someone using a display like that long enough to get used to it. At any rate, I sure didn't feel slowed down, which is the important thing.) I'd buy this over a Kindle in a heartbeat, though I'm still not going to give up my laptop keyboard so I'm not in the market at all. (But I'm even more not in the market for a Kindle.)