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Originally Posted by ingmar
Now they only need to to actually bring it to the market, especially the latter. I'm certain they would if it'd be ready to go into mass production.
Seems we don't quite see eye to eye regarding "mainstream technology". By your definition non-LCD color screens wouldn't be much of an innovation, because they have been shown to work in a lab somewhere, so what's new? I have yet to see an ereader that survives a drop from the kitchen table, and yes, I'd call that innovative. YMMV.
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Something that has been proven in a lab is not mainstream.
Something that is mainstream is mainstream, regardless of whether it exists in ereaders per se. Or specific ereaders.
Waterproofing has been successfully added to the Kobo, which translates to mainstream for me. And for Kindles you can always go to
http://waterfi.com/waterproof-kindle
As for dropping from the kitchen table, tablets can survive that, yes?
The fact that the tech adds cost to a device marketed as a cheap, at-cost device, making it a worthless thing for a manufacturer to utilize, does not make it innovative.
Ridiculously cheap waterproofing/durability upgrades could be regarded as innovation, insomuch as they involve something that isn't tried-and-tested mainstream tech (on account of it being in the mainstream, oddly)... but that isn't what you said.
Please stop being disingenuous. You know perfectly well what mainstream means.