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Listed below are comments made by ian mears between Thursday, 9th July 2009 and Friday, 8th January 2010 (7 Hours Ago) .

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Vegas: The British are here 4:37pm on 08 Jan 2010 As a business user I like the idea of being able to read docs on the go. Reading stuff on a laptop is not the most pleasant method so the QUE reader does look useful. The downside is that it is another bit of kit to cart around :-(

As for Apples mythical entry into the market I'm not so sure they will take over. They have a tendency to want to lock people into their own ecosystem so I can see them not allowing you to add your own content. e-readers need e-ink screens, other types just do not work for long term reading so a jack of all trades device wont cut it as an e-reader. Also Apple do not have a great track record for battery life on their smaller devices.
Google Chrome - one day on... 5:09pm on 09 Jul 2009 Mmm, Google's reputation for usability has hardly helped it in taking over the Browser market or mobile phone market.

Everything in the 'cloud' is such hype right now. Enterprises have no interest so they need to try and tempt consumers instead but these users are even more scared of using the Internet. How many of them are going to want to store all their personal documents on some server in another company with no real control over the security of them (and you can bet they wont get much of an SLA either)?

You've then got the problem of access to them via an Internet infrastructure that is far from perfect. Many people have low speed links, the links fail (last mile to exchange bit), performance is rubbish in the evenings etc. ISP's are hardly going to be falling over themselves with joy at yet more Internet traffic.

Just what percentage of the PC world only use the thing for e-mail and browsing I wonder? How many of those use other programs for music, watching DVD's, managing photo's? Yes it could all work from the cloud but have you any idea how long it takes to upload a few gigs of pictures and music?

It seems to me that the media have hyped this announcement way beyond the real impact and that in a year or so it will just end up being another option on Netbooks for email/web users and thats it.

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