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How To Run An Open Source Hardware Company

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saturation:
This is quite terrible.  It makes a very large barrier to enter the electronics industry unless you are a very large company.  But recycling has not been very successful to date:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste

Open source hardware has success, to name a few Tomtom GPS runs under Linux as embedded Linux, among many notable products:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Linux

allanw:
The Nook is only $150, which seems pretty cheap. It seems like they would subsidize the cost of the hardware by expecting you to actually buy books. Thus it doesn't make business sense to allow the hardware to be modified easily, because even if they can sell a thousand extra units to some geeks, they'd end up losing money if they don't buy books.

Of course I know nothing about the Nook. I'm just comparing it to the console market.

EEVblog:
The Kindle is now only $139.
My review is rendering now!

Dave.

JohnS_AZ:
I was swayed to the Nook because it has a web browser (such as it is). Maybe the Kindle does now as well. I don't know.

saturation:
The all-chinese design Dr. Yi reader, sold in the USA as the jetbook, is quite good too.



A key differentiator is an LCD screen, not e-paper.  It looks fairly close, and if you've used an e-paper based e-reader you know at each page turn the page 'flashes', it can be very annoying.

The LCD is old technology, but very hi-res.  So its interestingly as clear, but cheaper and works well.  The lite version runs off AA batteries.

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