[LINK] ebook readers -- here they come!

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Aug/31, at 7:06 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:

>
> 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.

TomTom?  Works as consumers want it to work.  Easy to use.  Runs linux.


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