[LINK] ebook readers -- here they come!

[Ivan Trundle]

On 31/08/2009, at 2:22 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 01:39 PM 31/08/2009, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> I've no doubt that many of you espouse the freedom of using an open-
>> source 'solution' to the e-book problem, but if I was asked to place
>> money on the eventual 'winner', based on previous history of mass-
>> market boxes, I'd be hard pressed to select any Linux-based device.
>
> To what do you attribute that? Is it because of the economics of
> proprietary systems and marketing?

Absolutely. The track record of ubiquitous open-source consumer boxes  
is minimal.

I return to the 2004 magazine that I was reading: it shows how  
incompetent engineers and software designers were back then. They  
missed the boat entirely, and didn't understand what the market wanted.

All it will take is for a company to market something that actually  
works as consumers want it to work, and a hit e-device will be born.

iT