I think your arguments suffer from the fact that you are clearly biased in favour of Apple.
point to my undying loyalty to all things Apple in this or other threads. I am a user of all three main platforms on a daily basis. I love how whenever anyone says something positive about an Apple product, it's clearly due to favoring Apple as a whole. Again, awesome logic.
As I said in my first post in the thread, I was outlining why an iPad was a better value FOR ME as well as people I know. If it isn't for you, then super. Don't buy it.
You say its great to read in low light, when I said it sucks to read in strong light.
I said no such thing. When I referenced using a Kindle, I said no matter what kind of light was on it I was not satisfied with the display.
For some reason you are using Kindle as an example. I myself use the newest Sony Reader, which is amazing to read on in strong light.
I've used the Kindle DX, and have seen the Nook and the Sony e-readers. They all use eInk, and none of them have a display approaching anything useful for me, as they are all the same black on gray.
I have three other screens in my house, one from high end brand Eizo, and a Samsung HDTV, and the MacBook 13", none of them are particularly good to read text on, compared to my e-reader.
In your opinion.
Bear in mind that when Apple says "up to ten hours". They mean, with half of the computers functionality drastically reduced. Brightness turned down low, blutooth turned off etc etc. I guarantee you that the iPad will be more annoying than pleasurable if used as an e-reader.
I don't seem to remember bringing up battery life of the iPad vs. an e-ink equipped e-reader, nor do I care, considering it's something that will get plugged in nightly next to my Droid anyway. Irrelevant to me.
The Sony reader I have now has lasted for a month without recharge. Which also can be considered a blow to Apples environmental-friendly image. If compared to actual e-readers, the iPad is by far the worst sinner of them all when it comes to wasting energy.
it would be terrible, if an e-reader was all it could do. But since I won't have to fire up a computer to do the other tasks an iPad can do, I could potentially be saving power.
I myself study in the third year of university now. And I absolutely have no need for graphs or anything. As always, real actual print is preferable when it comes to this. Things like pictures and such. But if you´re willing to look past that, the text is what matters most.
thank you for sharing your academic needs, which are completely unlike mine and therefore irrelevant to me completely. You would do well in understanding that we all have different needs, mine of which are met with the iPad and not an eInk-based e-reader. My texts do have graphs and illustrations that are most definitely dependent upon color, and eInk most definitely does not fit this need.
You didnt prove my point either though. You said Apple claim you can read books, which I have never denied. But show me where Apple calls the iPad an e-reader?
I can see definitions are very, very important to you, and that they must be rigid in order for you to understand them. As I said before (in case you missed it the first time) Apple is careful not to limit labeling it a web tablet, a movie device, or a gaming platform. But seeing as how it has a bookstore system designed into it, allowing purchases and loading of eBook content, I can't see how it would not be acknowledged as being an e-reader.
Also, if you can point to the industry recognized rigid definition of what makes an e-reader and what excludes something from being an e-reader, I would love to see this definition.
I think it is your logic that is flawed, because you fail to recognize what actual e-readers are. What sort of technology they have standarized for this specific marked. Ipad doesnt feature any of this. You are just staying inside your own bubble, claiming that the Ipad is this and that, while the reality is otherwise.
I think you're upset because of the attention the iPad is getting as a potential threat to the other e-readers because to you it won't be ideal and doesn't fit YOUR definition of what an e-reader should be.
If the iPad is NOT an e-reader, why the article responsible for this thread? Why all the talk over the web, in magazines, and on podcasts as to whether or not it will be a good e-reader?
Why are people who were previously considering a Nook, Sony, or Kindle holding off until the iPad is released?
Possibly because they've seen eInk, they're not sure about it, and while they realize the iPad is an IPS LCD, they want to check it out.
You need to realize that not everyone shares your view of what an e-reader is, does not share what your needs are, and has their needs partially or completely met by what the iPad currently promises.
Would I pre-order an iPad without seeing it, like some of the zealots on this board? Absolutely not. I want to see the screen and how it'll compare to my MBP, my iPod touch, and what I have already seen with the eInk devices.
