I work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this would be perfect for multilingual labels, and a few other things.
This is exactly what I needed - I've been experimenting with rooting Nooks and making epub's for applications (which are just html/cc/js) but the browsers are not that great and rooting has its own issues.
The 200% premium over a nook may seem a bit high but could probably be attributed to a) much smaller manufacturing run, and b) not expecting to make money off of content sales.
That was interesting! I have spent a lot of time with Meteor.js and it is cool to see it used on a different kind of device.
A little off topic, but: from my experience, Meteor.js hits a sweet spot for web apps with shared state between multiple users. It is also reasonable for a single user rich client. Because of issues like needing sticky sessions I don't think it is good at all for simpler content sites.
> It is also reasonable for a single user rich client. Because of issues like needing sticky sessions I don't think it is good at all for simpler content sites.
I don't think it is meant at all for simple content sites. The whole point is live-refreshing between server and other clients and that whole trick where you do something on device A and it automagically updates the view on device B as well.
Content sites need none of that. But it brings a smile every time I see an "app" site do that. Even though I know exactly how it works and I've done that stuff by hand from scratch. I just can't get over the "Wow, this is magic" feeling :)
I'm not gonna argue this is cool, but an iPad Mini is 249€ and you have larger support of "apps" (web or native). Sure, it's not waterproof and you have to have it connected most of the times, but you get a color screen and better touch capabilities.
Interesting article. Also, I'd not heard of the e-paper based V-tablet before; seems like a good device to experiment with, so will probably order one the future.
Region redraw is included in the forthcoming Meteor UI [1], which uses the new spacebars engine, so that might negate the requirement to use the Visionect plugin.
Barnes and Noble nook / Kindle paperwhite is ~$120. Those two manufacturers make way more than the expected $120 on content sales. I scoffed at the initial price too but it actually is competitive.
Of course, the older Nook was $80, and this could definitely drop down to under $200...
This is exactly what I needed - I've been experimenting with rooting Nooks and making epub's for applications (which are just html/cc/js) but the browsers are not that great and rooting has its own issues.
The 200% premium over a nook may seem a bit high but could probably be attributed to a) much smaller manufacturing run, and b) not expecting to make money off of content sales.