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Re (2): Why don't ePaper-devices do apps?

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In article <juksql$s8r$1@dont-email.me>, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote: 

> Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com wrote:
> > We know that epaper takes half a second to update its
> > screen, so it can't keep-up with keyed input.
> > 
> > But can't a method be found to buffer a [selectable]
> > number a chars, between screen updates. Or some 
> > other solution.
> > 
> > And why shouldn't it have an email-client and a
> > 'lynx-like' http-fetcher?
> > 
> 
> Special purpose devices, don't perform general purpose functions ?
> 
> Or stated another way, things that aren't computers, aren't computers.
> 
That's what IBM said in the 60's before the PC hit them.
And what PC-boys said before mobile devices hit them.
I read that now more <androids> than PCs are born.

> An epaper device, places an emphasis on saving power, so it's
> not intended as a replacement for some other small-form-factor
> computer-like device. And the display technology is likely
> selected as the lowest possible power using type. If the display
> updated more rapidly, it would be an LCD, and it would gulp down
> battery juice.
> 
>     Paul
Read again slowly: <we accept the slow update rate>,
and seek INOVATIVE methods to make it usable as a writer too.

Re. inet facilities: I spend an hour studying the text which
uses a 1 minute power-consumption-burst to d/l.

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Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-07-23 22:34 +0000
  Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-07-23 21:12 -0400
    Re (2): Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-07-24 08:01 +0000
    Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-07-27 15:03 -0400
      Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2012-07-27 20:04 +0000
        Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-07-29 20:10 -0400
  Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Charlie+ <charlie@xxx.net> - 2012-07-24 08:11 +0100
    Re (2): Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 17:58 +0000
      Re: Re (2): Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2012-07-31 01:21 +0000
      Re: Re (2): Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Charlie+ <charlie@xxx.net> - 2012-07-31 09:10 +0100
    Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2012-07-31 01:20 +0000
  Re: Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2012-07-24 07:57 -0400
    Re (2): Why don't ePaper-devices do apps? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 17:58 +0000

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