We’re raising our glasses to the unique Galapagos e-reader this morning, because Sharp has decided to discontinue it. Today, the manufacture announced that it’s going to stop taking orders for its 5.5- and 10.8-inch Android tablets on September 30th, just nine months once they first launched. a firm spokeswoman, however, confirmed that Sharp isn’t leaving the market altogether, because it plans to continue churning out the 7-inch A01SH that launched last month. The Japan-based firm is confident that “the marketplace for electronic books will continue to expand,” but decided to terminate its older slates because they’ve already “fulfilled the needs that they were designed for.” Sharp declined to reveal sales figures for the doomed devices, though local media outlets are reporting that they will was squeezed out of the Japanese market by the iPad — a decidedly Darwinian explanation.
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