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Another Asus E-Reader That Isn’t Released

Posted: March 2nd, 2010 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Asus seem to be one of the best companies at showing off interesting concepts, that then take forever to come to market. They start out with some fantastic idea (EeeKeyboard), then talk it up until you decide you need one in every room and push it back until it is obsolete by the time it hits the street.
This time it is the DR-900 (brother to the DR-950). Asus’s first 9-inch E-Reader which also comes with Wi-Fi, 3G and battery life good for 10,000 pages.  Engadget also believes it will feature the same 1024 x 768 pixel Sipix panel as the DR-950, and also have support for such formats as PDF, TXT, MP3 and ePUB. Mix into that the possibility of it being a touch screen device with what appears to be a very sexy looking case and you have something lust-worthy.
Nothing is known about release date or price, but I’m hoping it will be sometime this year. Knowing Asus  I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

Via [Engadget]

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I Started Apple So I Know Everything

Posted: January 18th, 2008 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Steve JobsOne of the most ignorant things Steve Jobs has ever said is “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” He was talking about the new Kindle from Amazon. I want to ask Steve Jobs who did his market research for him, and how accurate it can be?
It sounds more like a defeat whine from Jobs, instead of any factual information. Where do you pull numbers like 40% of Americans don’t read? Or that people in the US read one book or less? They is no way of accurately capturing that information, and seems more like a lie to cover their inability to compete with the current offerings.
If Jobs was to say that the average American only ‘buys’ 1 book a year, that would be a call he could make by notifying publishing companies and asking sales figures. Just polling a small amount of the population on how many books they read is ridiculous. How about the people who borrow books from friends, or from libraries, did you poll all of them?
I am not a Kindle fan, I much prefer a physical book, over reading from any type of digital display. I like libraries and book shops. I love my bookshelf full of books that I’ve bought and haven’t quite got through them all yet. The Kindle doesn’t give me what I need. Doesn’t mean that everyone feels that way.
I would love to give Kindles sales numbers to prove a point, but they are a mystery to everyone except Amazon. What I can say is that Apple make safe sale proven products, that you know people will gobble up. An E-Reader is too fresh a technology for them. Stick to releasing iPod’s and Mac’s that are shiny, and leave the true innervation to the gamblers.

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