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Originally Posted by Patrick_S
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eBook readers - Two Kindle owners and four Sony owners.
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Patrick -- obviously your circle of friends/acquaintances is more technophile than mine
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To me the acid test for something like the Kindle is the NYC subway. When the gen. 1 & 2 iPods started popping up all over the IRT I knew it would be a big hit. Heck, you could find old posts of mine here predicting it (I'm too lazy to search). The day I counted more white earbuds than all the walkmen/discmen/etc. combined, I knew it would be HUGE.
Up till now I have not seen a single Kindle in the subway.
Not even one Kindle, ever. I couldn't swear about the Sony reader as I might not so readily recognize it, but no one uses a Kindle on the subway, which should be the first place you'd see it if it was going to be any kind of hit. Meanwhile iPhones are second only to Blackberries on the subway (as indeed the sales numbers attest).
Anyway, why argue about the future -- it will come soon enough, and we'll all see how it turns out.