Tools of Change 2009 -- Plastic Logic

[danishka4jesus]

I'm interested in this for personal use, like reading books and other stuff. I thought the sheet music part was very neat since I love music. I didn't like the lady presenting it at all. I thought the guys comment about maybe having a stylus with it, was a good idea. I think that would add to it's usefulness. I agree that she shouldn't limit this to only business professionals or even just professionals. They of course should be mentioned but I think many types of people would be interested.

[ChrischanJunk]

They keep talking about this device! What the hell are they doing? Im reading about this for many months now and it's still not on the market.

Kindle is bringing out the Kindle DX with a big screen this summer. These Plastic Logic people will be swept away before they even got their's out.

[adiaz80]

She failed! How dare she say that it's more geared toward the business professional.  If I owned this company, I would have fired her. You never want to limit who the consumer should be. Never prioritize one person over the other. I would say it's for everybody. If they're trying to compete against Amazon, they have failed. Gwonk Gwonk!

[Sonovox01]

Actually, my wife has 2GB worth of cookbooks she wants to put on it. But i've yet to hear about storage capacity.

[carringtonblush]

mabuse74 thanks for posting this... but in the video info, I'm not sure it's realistic to say this e-reader was 'upstaged' by Kindle 2: they are for different markets. The Kindle 2 is worthless in a professional environment because the screen is not big enough to display 8x11 or A4 size pages...  an 8x11-screen kindle.. now that would interest me!

[carringtonblush]

Yeah, as if their intended market are 'above' doing crosswords or something.. not realistic. They should focus on the merits of the user editing using their attached keyboard, if there are any.

I also agree that it's silly to restrict it to 'business' professionals. Why not just 'professionals' then that encompasses academics, medical, government etc. And why 'mobile'? I barely go anywhere - and I cannot wait to nuke all my huge filing cabinets - if this thing really works.

[mcteeth]

she also comes across defensive about the device and dismissive of the interviewer's comments. like it's a dumb idea to want to scribble or do a crossword. what's wrong with that? it would be COOLER if it could do that. and she doesn't demo it at all - turn a page or something! do you know how it works? it's like she doesn't want to sell it. very offputting. in case you can't tell, i don't like her very much.

[mcteeth]

she spends a lot of time here talking about what this device is NOT for. Do they really want to limit their potential customer base to "mobile business professionals"? that seems foolish. i can think of a lot of uses for this that don't fit that profile. are they trying to discourage me from buying it?