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-- Wired: By contrast, e-book readers are good at basically one thing: Storing and displaying monochrome text and simple graphics. E-ink is the best technology
by kirse 17y ago
-- Wired: By contrast, e-book readers are good at basically one thing: Storing and displaying monochrome text and simple graphics.
E-ink is the best technology just for that purpose and if I'm going to buy a Book Reader I want it to be perfect for reading books, not a half-assed compromise for surfing the web and spamming useless Twitter updates to all my friends.
-- Make no mistake: There are many more people who would be interested in a general-purpose tablet than in an e-book reader.
The "many more people" are called tech nerds and their holy grail has already been realized as the open-source CrunchPad, which will be far cheaper than any mega-sized iPhone.
The only thing I'll be doing in response to this Apple rumor is day trading AAPL options.
- electromagnetic 17y agoThe biggest question of all is price: $360 for a Kindle 2, or likely $3,000 for a megaPhone.
- skwiddor 17y ago-- Wired: By contrast, e-book readers are good at basically one thing: Storing and displaying monochrome text and simple graphics. And that's why they are a win. I have a 15" laptop, a 10" laptop, a Sony Ebook, a G1, a 5.1mp camera and an MP3 Walkman. Each one has a niche and that's where I use it. I don't use the ebook as an mp3 player (though it can) and I don't want to hook up a keyboard to it (though I could). I use it to read books on the bus.