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Originally Posted by Skydog
Well, that's unfortunate and not my experience.
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I agree with jswinden. I also think your post was a little over the top. I dislike people spreading rumors as fact, but I think you really could have pointed that out without being so harsh.
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Originally Posted by Skydog
You base this on what? I have no doubt Amazon will do just that, or better, assuming you are refering to the higher resolution.
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And you base this on what? See, I can also play this game.
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Originally Posted by valex
I agree with you. Based on the recent news/rumors it looks like at this point Amazon is much more interested in their new projects which are largely Android-based - phone, tv, tablets. In the e-reader area I am not expecting anything more drastic than marginal improvements/fixes in hardware (faster cpu, more memory, etc), some improvements/fixes in software (which are directly revenue-generating), and/or lower price. I think lower price is the highest priority, the e-reader market is pretty much saturated and in order to sell more readers en masse they'd need to go after those who still don't have one yet - meaning _very_ casual readers. So I fully expect, say, $25 (or less!) for basic Kindle.
As far as major improvements go, there has been only a few innovations in e-ink area recently, namely flexible screens and color e-ink (HD is not new any more). Amazon experimented with color e-ink (Triton) in the past and wasn't impressed with the quality. I also think the primary audience for the color screens - magazine readers - is pretty much satisfied with tablets (and bought them already).
The flexible screens are much more interesting, but unless they can make truly revolutionary device with fully folding/rolling-up screen so the device when closed is the size of a smartphone/pencil - again I don't see that happening.
The Kobo Aura HD is kind of a signal that there is nothing really in the pipeline for the e-ink screens (ok, its dpi is higher) and the only "major" improvement could be the bigger size. Let us not forget that the Aura's screens are the batch abandoned by BN so they also both didn't have anything else (but size) to offer and didn't think that enough people would want to buy it.
Me, I am ready to jump my Kindle Keyboard ship, just waiting for the kindlepdfviewer to be ported to Aura HD  |
This post is pretty much in line with my thinking, especially the bolded portions.