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Originally Posted by space_voyager
I see what you mean. I'm all for a DPT-S2, even though I just bought this one - it would mean that the market for such devices is healthy (actually, very healthy given the high price of the DPT-S1). However I don't think making a new hardware prevents there being new software. Just like you can upgrade an old iPad with a new iOS, we should be able to as customers upgrade to the latest firmware of the new device - should there be a new device.
I do not think that my feature requests are difficult to implement. Adding colors is a nonissue - that's 2-3 more lines of code given that they likely have the color choice hard-coded somewhere with an RGB setting. The split-screen is more difficult but can be copied/inspired from open source PDF readers for PC that do it and, if it makes for a more powerful feature set that attracts more customers (I'm sure it would), this couple-of-day endeavour should be justified. In fact, employing a programmer to make this feature in two weeks, getting paid $80'000/year, will pay itself after 5 readers are sold - and I am sure many more readers than that would be sold because of such a feature. Split-screen is the second-best to the power of paper in being able to look quickly in several places of the book at once. Finally, the same goes for a modifiable table of contents - perhaps amortizing the time spent on these two features will be 10 readers sold, worst case estimate.
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The question is why SONY would/should be interested in doing that. From their perspective, they have a bunch developers they can dispatch for whatever. They sure have enough projects. Now would you rather have them work on the old DPT-S1 for "customer happiness" in return or have them work on new, promising projects?