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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Yes, from what I understand, it's the same technique that Kobo is now using for the One. But I also didn't understand their decision to make a new reader less than the current one it would have replaced. It should have been a smaller version of the One, with waterproofing, good screen and natural light, only smaller.
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My guess is that the price for such a device would have been unsupportable. I suspect Kobo's development process for the Aura 2 was to select the price point first, their gross profit margin second, and then they figured out what they could afford to provide with those parameters. I don't think they were wrong, either; I think meeting the industry standard price on their 6" front-lit device was mandatory; another quasi-luxe device on top of the ONE and the H2O would have been a shot to the foot.
When the Two showed up, I read the writing on the wall and jumped on the Glo HD at the close-out price sale.