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The article reads as though the author really doesn't know what they're talking about.
I attempt to avoid slandering entire websites but this hasn't been the first time Good-eReader has given me this feeling. I wish them luck with the campaign, but just a little over a thousand dollars so far? Not a good sign. |
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http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/0...amazon-for-49/ I never did find out how that happened. |
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When Sony left the market (and a niche 13 inch device is not really part of the overall market) easily navigated library management went with them. I will admit that on the hardware side I would like to see the return of the replaceable battery, and a plastic substrate screen under a transparent aluminum face panel. What would be more "ultimate" than a reader you could keep functional for a couple decades with military grade ruggedness but not much increased size? |
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To add to that, multi touch is also possible - at the very least 2 point multi touch. The KT as old as it is has pinch to zoom, for example.
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Although I admit I did also express my doubts at how many people will back it. ![]() Quote:
If I have nothing nice to say because there is genuinely nothing nice to say, but there are rather a lot of not-very-nice-things-at-all to say, and they are all true, I see nothing wrong with saying it. The fact that there is nothing, I repeat NOTHING, good to say about them, is in and of itself noteworthy. Where would any of us be if everyone was too afraid of peer pressure to say any statement not liberally doused with saccharine sweetness? ... We'd live in a world that was a perverted inversion of something out of Lovecraft. I'm not sure which one scares me more. ... There are actually forum guidelines against putting *people* down. ("When things get controversial please disagree with the opinion, not the person.") But there is nothing against putting an idea, action, or product down. There is a reason for this -- because there are a lot of opinions in the world, and many of them disagree. Usually in a very, um, emphatic manner. Several of those opinions have to do with communication norms. ![]() I guarantee you, there are at least as many people offended by that line as there are people who use that line to get offended at people -- and who are you to pass judgment? (Bit of hypocrisy in that stance, actually. ![]() ... ... ... And I for one am not very impressed with GoodEreader's word-twisting -- which seems about par the course, judging by their average "news" article. I also don't like their egotistical description. ... And anything they do, I am already biased against.
This is above and beyond the haphazard approach they take toward their articles, both in editing, and in verification. And I can only assume, in their Indiegogo campaigns. |
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And now I wonder why anyone backs this. For a campaign that rests entirely on how much they can raise (how do you deliver a product that has no recipe other than "raise enough money via a campaign to be able to purchase this") you do NOT want to gamble on a Flexible Funding campaign. It's not like they will be able to do *something*, if they don't meet a certain target. |
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How much ram other Android tablet-like ereader have? 512MB seems very little to me. Especially with Android 6.0. How would this device hope to handle apps?
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The thing is, if we didn't say things that were not nice, then how could we give some reviews that say how not nice something is?
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The new Onyx T68+ has 1GB RAM, which, as you say, will be a lot better for running apps. There's a good reason that the current eInk Android devices run Android 4.0; it's a lot less resource-hungry than the later releases.
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If they don't reach the target in 60 days it will be left open if it's close. Also, if anyone reads the article they would see this:
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As for people worried about crowdfunding, isn't that essentially what Amazon did for the Echo, and Fire TV? They took pre-orders and authorized credit cards to make certain the buyer would likely to be able to complete the purchase.
I doubt very few independent start ups have the resources to not need crowdfunding. |
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This is my favourite sentence from the whole pitch:
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You got any source about the pre-authorizing credit cards RE: Echo and Fire TV? |
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