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Originally Posted by robko
That may be true, but when the 1st Kobo came out (and it was a far cry from being anything like equivalent to the current generation of Kindle at the time), Kindle pricing (and others) pricing dropped pretty quickly because Kobo was 1/2 the price. Price isn't everything, but it can speak loudly, especially with devices that a lot of people are going to see as equal. Yes I know there are differences, but to be honest, for me none of the features that Kindle has would entice me to buy it over a Kobo even at equal pricing. Others have different wants and will be willing to pay more or less depending on their wants. And there were a lot of people that baulked at the price of a Voyage when it came out and didn't buy on that basis alone.
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I think Kobo pricing only affects the segment of Kindle's market that is sufficiently technically proficient that they can transfer/convert their existing collection from one to the other (and can be bothered doing so), or have no interest in re-reading previously-bought books (so will happily jettison them in jumping to another brand of eReader).
I would suspect that this market segment is sufficiently small, and sufficiently fickle, that Amazon will not consider it profitable to target them.
The vast majority of those who "baulked at the price of a Voyage" are likely to simply stay with the PW2, rather than move to Kobo simply for increased resolution.