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Ok, here's my opinion about what's needed to keep up with the competition:
1) WiFi - the argument that something can go wrong doesn't cut it with me, as anything can go wrong at anytime with complicated technology. Technology is moving in that direction anyway, as one person here noted. It's a selling poing. Maybe we need tiered levels of Readers with different price points. -- Keeping abreast with the Kindle.
2) Replaceable Battery - Ok, make the process difficult, but make it available from Borders or a Sony store.
3) More ram - it's relatively cheap. It's not that what is available is not enough; rather, it seems to be a perceptual way of thinking. Keeping abreast of the Gen3.
4) Less Weight - I mean, HEY, it can happen.
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For you young Sony corporate chaps, go back and read what happens to technology when operating systems are closed. Look at Tandy (Radio Shacks) TRS-DOS and the early Macintosh. Arguably, if Apple had opened up the Macintosh's operating system early on, Windows might not exist and Bill Gates' well-publicized temper tantrums would get his little butt fired from the many jobs he'd no doubt be working at. Sony needs enough greed to survive, but too much greed will kill anything.
The good news is this: Sony has taken the first steps to add more choices to our favorite Reader. I don't think it's too late.
I'm open to changes in my thinking.
Don
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